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Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala

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Episode Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala

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Cassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose).

BOOKS

Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP

Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury

GUESTS

Roanna Gonsalves, writer, academic, teacher of creative writing. Her collection of short stories, The Permanent Resident, was published in India and South Asia as, Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney

Annie Coulthard has worked in radio and publishing – and is a dedicated reader

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report

Franz Kafka, works

Michelle de Krester, Questions of Travel; Theory and Practice

Christopher Isherwood, works

Melanie Cheng, The Burrow

Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

Elizabeth Jane Howard, We Are For the Dark

Sanya Rushdi, Hospital

Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater

Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13; The Sun Walks Down

Eileen Chong, We Speak of Flowers

CREDITS

• Presenter: Kate Evans • Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer: Simon Branthwaite • Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown

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