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episode 12: Jeanne Thornton

Episode Summary

A conversation with Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun.

Episode Notes

I talk with Jeanne Thornton about everything from the history of recorded music to writing as a form of magic.

Some of Jeanne's work:

• Summer Fun
• The Black Emerald: Novellas & Stories 
• The Dream of Doctor Bantam

Some of the works/people/etc. mentioned in this episode: 

• The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson (ofc)
• I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir by Brian Wilson (with Ben Greenman)
• Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
• Calvin and Hobbes
• We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning 
• Jeanne Thornton's review of We Had No Rules (on AGOTT)
• Corinne Manning's review of Summer Fun (at the Brooklyn Rail)
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Little Fish by Casey Plett
• Instar Books
• Tori Amos Bootleg Webring by Megan Milks
• The Far Side of Madness by John Weir Perry
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
• William Gaddis
• Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando
• Bishakh Som 
• Miscellaneous Kisses by Hazel Jane Plante

The episode transcript will be uploaded in the not-too-distant future. (Sorry!)

Photo of Jeanne Thornton by Leslie Weems.

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