Episode 04: Erin Lyndal Martin
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Writer Erin Lyndal Martin joins the show to inform us that Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel, but only after we wondered if Joe Rogan could do it. Other topics include whether men should read more literature (spoiler: yes) and whether doing so would make the world a better place (debatable). Also, what to do about books that are capital-I Important but maybe not so great?
Some of Erin’s recent work includes “If Sylvia Plath wrote ‘Wild Geese’ ” in Electric Literature and “Carillon” in Maudlin House. Visit her at erinlyndalmartin.com.
Works Cited this episode:
“After the Election” by Sarah Messer
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Molly by Blake Butler
Ulysses by James Joyce
Boring Girls by Sara Taylor
Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
“The Promise of American Poetry” by Bob Hicok
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin [sic] Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Zabibah and the King by Anonymous (attributed to Saddam Hussein)
A Message to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee