Episode 9
October 17, 2019

My Sister, the Serial KillerMiddlemarch

Hosted by Michael Collins and Emily Gushue Whalen

Michael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch (“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer. They talk about sibling bonds, literary awards, adolescent reading habits, and trying to be a good person.

Show Notes.

Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer.

George Eliot: Middlemarch.

The Spouter-Inn’s episode on Middlemarch and bonus episode with Michael!

Brittany Runs a Marathon [trailer].

Virginia Woolf: Orlando.

Megan Gail Coles: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.

Michael discusses Megan Gail Coles’s novel in episode 7.

Michael Crummey: The Innocents.

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