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• Guest: Zachary Gillan
• Title: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARB
• Robert Aickman
• Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain
• Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim
• Annihilation, Acceptance, and Absolution
• VanderMeer’s blog
• VanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
• MKUltra
• Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)
• Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko
• Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker
• Alex Garland's Annihilation
• Cormac McCarthy's The Road
• Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures
• Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow
• Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers
• Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated Series
• Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other work
• VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander
• Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain