It's summer and time to dust off the adventure genre. From Morte D'Arthur and Don Quixote to King Solomon's Mones and The Hunger Games, Lobo and Trash take on jungles, death, and destruction to see what adventures we seek and why.

FDF recommendations:

Woman of the Dead

Birks now in plastic

This week, Jonas Rocket is back in the booth and together with Lobo and Trash he revisits some of the most extraordinary literary scandals of the past. Strap in for an hour of new and old gossip!

FDF Recommendations:

⁠Liberation Day, George Saunders ⁠

⁠White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link⁠ 

⁠Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty ⁠

⁠Bliss Montage, Ling Ma⁠: 

Dean Koontz -- ⁠Odd Thomas⁠

Other Lives -- ⁠Tamer Animals⁠

This week, Lobo and Trash explore a tantalizing variety of stories, from the foreign and exotic, to the domestic and familiar, to the forbidden and taboo. So buckle up and get ready for a wild ride — we’ll take you on a journey through the fascinating and sometimes unexpected worlds of fiction and literature! (Thanks, ChatGTP)

Carmen Maria Machado -- The Husband Stitch

Edgar Allan Poe

Aimee Bender -- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Julio Cortazar -- Blow-Up

Jorge Luis Borges -- Death and the Compass

Kate Braverman -- Pagan Night

Octavia Butler -- Speech Sounds

Mariana Enriquez

Cixin Liu

This week, Elisa Wouk Almino joins Lobo and Trash and talks about her experience as a Brazilian who has lived outside of Brazil most of her life; about living in LA; her work as a writer, editor, and translator; and about teaching translation. You can follow her on Instagram at @ewoukalmino

Also, if you have questions for us, please email us at [email protected]. We might do a Q&A episode in the near future.

Elisa's book This House

Elisa's upcoming workshop

This Little Art by Kate Briggs

Into English 

Selva Almada -- Dead Girls

She Past Away

Writer Mauricio Montiel Figueiras is back in the studio, and an episode that we thought would focus on movies turns into a chat about death, life, Lucifer, and other things that seem outrageous, dangerous, and beautiful. And we still talk a lot about movies.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT: 

JULIO CORTAZAR

MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (not yet translated into English):

BLADE RUNNER: 

JACOB'S LADDER (trailer):

BABYLON (trailer): 

DECISION TO LEAVE

This week, Lobo and Trash dive into the wonderland of literature dealing with afflictions of the body and the mind. From Madame Bovary to Jenny Odell, and from Andrew Solomon to Lucy Grealy, they travel through pain, insights, perpetual orgies, revelations, and identity politics.

DakhaBrakha

The perpetual orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

Andrew Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy

Heather Sellers, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know

Jenny Odell

This week, Lobo and Trash talk about physical pain vs. moral pain? Which of the two is tougher and how do we overcome them (if at all)? Trash is turning old and Lobo is sporting the new official FDF hat, and of course, they have time for some recommendations.

La Miga Bakery in Mexico City

Garmin Instinct

Author, dancer, and actress Meg Howrey stops by for a visit and talks about her new book "They're Going to Love You," the mysterious Blythe doll, and what AI might be good for in literature. And, of course, the three share recommendations!

The Wanderers

The Doll Queen

ChatGPT

Francesco Tristano Especially his album On Early Music

Esquina de Buenos Aires

Car Hammer

This week, Lobo and Trash talk about narrators, who they are, why they are what they are, and what they would like to read less and more of. 

Hirokazu Kore-eda - Broker

Hirokazu Kore-eda -- Shoplifters

Fernet Branca

Bartleby, the Scrivener

This week, short story writer and novelist Liliana Blum is visiting and talks to Lobo and Trash about first loves, second first loves, and many more loves and obsessions. And, after a brief absence, the FDF list of recommendations makes a return.

Libros de Liliana en Amazon

Charles Robert Maturin -- Melmoth the Wanderer

Edmondo de Amicis -- Constantinople

Los Espookys

Enid Blyton -- St. Clare's

Amado Nervo en español