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episode 6: Torrey Peters

Episode Summary

A conversation with Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby.

Episode Notes

I talk with Torrey Peters about everything from writing about shame and bodies to Hemingway and commas.  

Works by Torrey that we discuss: 

• Detransition, Baby
• Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
• The Masker

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

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder's essay “Six Films by Douglas Sirk" (New Left Review, no. 91, May/June 1975)
• Topside Press
• Karl Ove Knausgård
• T Fleischmann’s Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through
• Ali Blythe’s Hymnswitch
• Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox
• James Joyce's story "The Dead" (Here is its final sentence: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.")
• Ernest Hemingway's six word short story: "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn."
• Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's PBS documentary Hemingway
• Jackie Ess's Darryl
• Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt
• Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars
• Jorge Luis Borges

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

Photo of Torrey Peters by Natasha Gornik.

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