Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters | Reading Writers
Charlotte overcomes her resistance to novels about sexual abuse in order to read Kate Elizabeth Russell’s excellent My Dark Vanessa, after which Jo introduces listeners to the freewheeling criminality of Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian. The ferociously intelligent Torrey Peters then joins for a conversation about plant consciousness and our relationship with the organic world.
Other titles mentioned in this episode: Jamie Hood’s Trauma Plot, The Incest Diary by Anonymous, Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane, Melanie Challenger’s How To Be Animal, Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.