Obsessive Love and Mythic Subversion
Now playing · Sat Oct 17 · 1:30pm
Obsessive Love and Mythic Subversion
Two novelists discuss fiction that remixes myth, folklore and the Gothic. In Bar Fridman-Tell’s Honeysuckle, a sister makes her little brother a playmate, a girl woven from flowers and words who rots and must be repaired every season. In Kyle McCarthy’s Immersions, a dancer quits and enters an enclosed convent, and her younger sister confronts the ex-husband she blames. Novelist Stephen P. Kiernan, author of Pollock’s Last Lover, moderates.