A Meal of Thorns 32 – AUTHORITY with Zachary Gillan
Update: 2025-09-08
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- Guest: Zachary Gillan
- Title: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
- Host: Jake Casella Brookins
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
- Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson
References:
- Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARB
- Robert Aickman
- Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain
- Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim
- Annihilation, Acceptance, and Absolution
- VanderMeer’s blog
- VanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
- MKUltra
- Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)
- Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko
- Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker
- Alex Garland's Annihilation
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road
- Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures
- Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow
- Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers
- Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated Series
- Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other work
- VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander
- Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
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