224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
We talk about Susan's new novel, Old Soul, and it's globetrotting monster
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Show Notes
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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