A Meal of Thorns 53- TINY DEATHS with Ian Mond

Critic & reviewer Ian Mond talks us through *Tiny Deaths*, a very funny and frequently morbid collection. We also think bigger: about the place and status of humor and seriousness in genre literature, and why non-genre imprints and translated literature might be places to look for this energy. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! - Guest: Ian Mond - Title: Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman - Host:Jake Casella Brookins - Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia - Artwork byRob Patterson - Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough References: - The Writer and The Critic - Tayari Jones’ Kin - Boyhood by David Keenan - Centreouropa by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul Bery - Edward Royston’s Transgressing Time - Christopher Priest's The Recollections - Priest & Allan’s The Illuminated Man - Sturgeon's Law (“90% of everything is crap”) - **Dr. Who** & Stephen King - Gallifrey One convention - Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, T.C. Boyle, Kelly Link - Lisa Heschong’s Thermal Delight in Architecture - Rachel Khong’s My Dear You - **The Simpsons** - Blindness by José Saramago, Julio Cortázar - Shearman’s *Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical*, *Everyone’s Just So So Special*, and *We All Hear Stories in the Dark* - “Chimes At Midnight” and “The Holy Terror” - Douglas Adams - *Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North* - Jon Stone’s The Monster At The End Of This Book - Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria - *Groundhog Day, directed by Harold Ramis* - James Morrow's Towing Jehovah & *Only Begotten Daughter* - Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” - Leyna Krow's Sinkhole and Other Stories - Ed Park's An Oral History of Atlantis - Michael Swanwick & Jeffrey Ford collections - "Gate 9" in Pandemonium Waltz - Hilary Leichter, Sayaka Murata, Liliana Colanzi - Translated Hugo Initiative - Words Without Borders - Locus Award for Best Translated Novel - Isaac Fellman's Notes From A Regicide - Incandescent by Emily Tesh - Sean McTiernan's SFUltra - Locus Magazine - Ian's Substack & Facebook & Goodreads