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Credits:
- Guest: Shinjini Dey
- Title: Tainaron: Mail From Another City by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi Hawkins
- Host: Jake Casella Brookins
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
References:
- George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx
- The “Post-Exotic” novels by Antoine Volodine etc- Kree, Mevlido’s Dreams, Postexoticism in 12 Lessons
- The New Weird, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
- Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer
- Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
- Renee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka
- "Big Dumb Objects"
- Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach
- Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander & Casella’s review
- "The Look", "The Gaze"
- Entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre & mystic Angelus Silesius
- Emmanuel Levinas & Martin Buber
- Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger In Olondria
- Nghi Vo’s The City in Glass & Casella’s review
- Protagoras
- “Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose”
- Longhorn beetles
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of “sub-creation”
- Shinjini’s website & twitter
- How did I fail to mention TMBG's "Snail Shell"?