It’s all about memory this week.

Remember that time literary superstar Carmen Maria Machado came on the show? No? Well here’s your chance to catch up on what you missed.

Carmen spoke to me about Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House – the former a collection of folktale and fable, spun to hideous effect; the latter a piercing fictionalised memoir of abuse and haunted relationships.

This was a daunting interview – we went deep into life, love and all the horrors they can bring. But we came up smiling.

It’s a happy memory.

Enjoy.

The Argonauts (2015), by Maggie Nelson

The Ghost Variations (2021), by Kevin Brockmeier

A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade (2014), by Kevin Brockmeier

Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (2016), by Brian Blanchfield

Monster Portraits (2018), by Sofia Samatar

The Hot Zone (1994), by Richard Preston

The Haunting of Hill House (1959), by Shirley Jackson

The Bloody Chamber (1979), by Angela Carter

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