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Credits:

• Guest: Shinjini Dey
• Title: Tainaron: Mail From Another City by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi Hawkins
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx 
• The “Post-Exotic” novels by Antoine Volodine etc- Kree, Mevlido’s Dreams, Postexoticism in 12 Lessons
• The New Weird, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
• Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer
• Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
• Renee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka
• "Big Dumb Objects"
• Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach
• Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander & Casella’s review
• "The Look", "The Gaze"
• Entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre & mystic Angelus Silesius
• Emmanuel Levinas & Martin Buber
• Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger In Olondria
• Nghi Vo’s The City in Glass & Casella’s review
• Protagoras
• “Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose”
• Longhorn beetles
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of “sub-creation”
• Shinjini’s website & twitter
• How did I fail to mention TMBG's "Snail Shell"?