Bookbabble Episode 25: Unconventional Storytelling

Dec 28, 2008 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 25: Unconventional Storytelling
Recorded 14 Dec 2008
Babblers: Bjorn, Gem, Donny with guest Renee Wallace aka Irene Wilde

Synopsis:

The babblers list books that tell their story in unconventional ways.  Books that either have interesting structures, telling the story out of sequence, using stories within a story, or just simply seem weird, a lot of books got mentioned here.  Are they a crutch, a means to an end, or an integral part of the whole experience?  Irene Wilde joins us again for this show as we weigh in the piles of books.

 

Books mentioned (some of them, anyway):

• Ulysses – James Joyce
• La Disparition – Georges Perec
• Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
• Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
• Locos: A Comedy of Gestures – Felipe Alfau
• Chromos – Felipe Alfau
• The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
• Stone Gods – Jeannette Winterson
• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• No specific book by JG Ballard, I think – uhm, perhaps Empire of the Sun?
• Palefire – Vladimir Nabokov
• If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino
• The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur – Victor Pelevin
• A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M Miller Jr
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
• The Ticket That Exploded – William S. Burroughs

 

Links:

• Felipe Alfau

 

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