Foreign, Domestic & Forbidden

Don't Touch That Wallpaper! or Books We Don't Read -- a discussion with Jason Ockert


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With today's guest Jason Ockert, Lobo and Trash discuss the books they won't touch and why. From deadly wallpaper to inscrutable classics, and from gratuitous violence to too-long tomes, they dive into what makes a book unreadable.

1. Shadows from the Walls of Death documentary: https://vimeo.com/525589368

2. Weird Short Stories for Strange Times: https://lithub.com/weird-short-story-writers-for-strange-times/

3. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: https://www.amazon.com/Friday-Black-Kwame-Adjei-Brenyah-author/dp/1787476014/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1656079529&sr=1-1

4. White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar: https://www.amazon.com/White-Dancing-Elephants-Chaya-Bhuvaneswar/dp/1945814616

5. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu: https://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Known-Monsters-21st-Century/dp/1951142993

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo:

https://www.amazon.com/Pedro-Paramo-Juan-Rulfo/dp/0802133908/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GVHBLRZ33PP5&keywords=pedro+paramo&qid=1656100161&sprefix=pedro+paramo%2Caps%2C449&sr=8-1

To Live by Yu Hua:

https://www.amazon.com/Live-Novel-Yu-Hua-ebook/dp/B000XU8DU6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NTBTK0NERY6Q&keywords=to+live+yu+hua&qid=1656100225&sprefix=to+live%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1

To Live, film adaptation directed by Zhang Yimou:

https://g.co/kgs/vGpqkN

Things we lost in the fire, by Mariana Enriquez:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=things+we+lost+in+the+fire+mariana+enriquez&crid=6PAGLUQJ0OLM&sprefix=things+we+lost%2Caps%2C189&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_6_14

Wallander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallander_(Swedish_TV_series)

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Foreign, Domestic & ForbiddenBy Joaquin Lobo and Tim Trash