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224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:08:38
Publish Date: 2025-01-21 17:59:00
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Tyranny is the key this week on Talking Scared this week. How fitting.

 

Susan Barker’s Old Soul is a globe-trotting, decade-spanning supernatural tour of autocracies, from behind the Iron Curtain to contemporary China. If that isn’t frightening enough, it also features an ageless woman who curses anyone she meets, a grand cosmic entity, and the exhilaration and terror of deep time. 

 

Heady stuff, and Susan and I talk about all of it – and just why she likes to write about as many times and places in each book as she can.

 

Enjoy.

 

  • Incarnations (2014) by Susan Barker
  • Sayonara Bar (2005), by Susan Barker
  • Ghostwritten (1999), by David Mitchell
  • Number9Dream (2001), by David Mitchell
  • Slade House (2015), by David Mitchell
  • House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Under the Skin (2000), by Michelle Faber
  • Audition (1997), by Ryū Murakami
  • The Denial of Death (1973), by Ernest Becker
  • The Three Body Problem (2006), by Cixin Liu
  • You Like it Darker (2024), by Stephen King
  • Starve Acre (2019), by Andrew Michael Hurley
  • Barrowbeck (2024), by Andrew Michael Hurley
  • The Ritual (2011), by Adam Neville

 

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