101: Setting as Character

101: Setting as Character


In episode 101, Gen and Jette talk about the settings that feel so alive they become an entire character in the novel — the haunted houses, the seaside towns, the cities that feel like living, breathing entities, we’re here for all of it!


Show Notes

Make sure to check out Gen’s blog post, which inspired this episode.

We, uh, talked about a lot of books. Find (most of) them listed below!

In our next episode we’ll be talking about Little Women the novel, as well as two of the film adaptations from 1994 and 2019


Books & Media Mentioned

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufmann
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
L.A. Confidential
The Shining by Stephen King
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Batman
Sin City by Frank Miller
Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis by Andy Weir
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James
Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Slade House by David Mitchell
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Jaws by Peter Benchley
The Dark Library by Cyrille Martinez
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Dune by Frank Herbert


Episode 101