Episode · The Book Review · 2023-03-31
Victor LaValle on The Book Review: books mentioned
Victor LaValle Talks About Horror and ‘Lone Women’
Gilbert Cruz recommended The Outsider by Stephen King, and discussed Lone Women by Victor LaValle, The Black Guy Dies First by Robin R. Means Coleman and others, and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Victor LaValle recommended We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and others, and discussed Danse Macabre by Stephen King and The Shining by Stephen King.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Outsider
The Outsider by Stephen King is a genre-blending thriller that begins as a straightforward police procedural investigating a gruesome local murder before twisting into a terrifying supernatural horror story.
Recommended“The Outsider if you haven't read it it's a very good horror crime novel and Victor's review is in part an Ode to Stephen King who's one of the Prime influences in his writing life”
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Lone Women
Lone Women is a historical horror novel by Victor LaValle that follows a woman escaping her past with a heavy trunk in early twentieth-century Montana.
Discussed“he's here with me this week to talk about his fantastic novel lone women”
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This reference covers several distinct books recommended or discussed across various podcasts.
Discussed“I came across an amazing book called Montana women homesteaders a field of ones own by Dr Sarah Carter and I picked it up off the shelf entirely just cuz I'd never heard of Lone women homesteaders”
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The Black Guy Dies First
Discussed“I saw you did a buy the book for us and you said on your nightstand I don't know if you've started it yet is a book called the black guy dies first”
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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a celebrated 1959 gothic horror novel that tells the chilling story of four individuals staying in a notoriously sinister mansion.
Discussed“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
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Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre is a non-fiction critical overview of the horror genre by Stephen King that surveys horror across literature, film, and television from the mid-twentieth century through the 1970s.
Discussed“it begins with Stephen King and his book Dan macabra which was his 80s summary of the horror field in general”
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The Shining
The Shining by Stephen King is a classic psychological horror novel about a struggling writer descending into madness while caretaking an isolated winter hotel.
Discussed“and then the other thing that she does that to me is even more rarified within the haunted house field although certainly anyone who's read The Shining will understand it”
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, featuring narration by Bernadette Dunne, is a celebrated gothic novel and the final work published by the author in 1962.
Recommended“and I also read her the the book that came after this we have always lived in the castle which is as much as I love this book that's her Masterpiece I would say”
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Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“and so for me I think regardless of if it's deeply historically researched like this or if it's something that might be a little bit Wilder like my novel big machine”
“I know a few years ago you worked on a graphic novel sort of modern day version correct me if I'm wrong of a Frankenstein yes it's called Destroyer”
“so my first two books were literary realism and then my third big machine was the beginning of me writing into genre”
“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
“If you think about books that came decades later like House of leaves which is about a house that keeps mutating growing bigger on the inside”
“I've been speaking with Victor Laval about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and about his new novel lone women”