Starling Days, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Starling Days, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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The Works of Vermin, The City, and the Second Empire

Eden launches into Hiron Ennes' The Works of Vermin, using it as a platform to explore ideas around the potentials and contradictions of living in modern cities. He also discusses the influence of the French Second Empire (yes) on the New Weird, why that period of time holds so m ...  Show more

A Smörgåsbord of Sentences

Langdon and Eden meet to discuss a smörgåsbord (say it with us) of topics like mental health, the uses of online discourse, and a collection of books they've been reading. Music played: The Holy Pale by Wildhunt https://jawbreakerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-holy-pale 

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