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Credits:

• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Guest: Dan Hartland
• Title: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• This blog has a round-up of articles and commentary on the Gaiman allegations.
• Dan’s Snap! Criticism series at Ancillary
• Handheld Press
• Vonda McInty’re The Exile Waiting & Dreamsnake
• The 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Annie Luong on Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last
• Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle
• Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise & Casella’s review
• Don DeLillo’s White Noise
• Winterson’s Written on the Body, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, and Frankisstein
• Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels
• William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale
• China Miéville’s The City & The City (though I don’t think we actually name it)
• Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis
• Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
• The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew, and Leigh Wilson
• Neil Gaiman, Jeff Noon, Steph Swainston
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
• Frank Herbert’s Dune
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Wendy Roy on Cherie Dimaline
• William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and others
• Dan’s piece in LARB on Christopher Priest and his last novel, Airside