In this podcast The Outer Dark presents ‘This Is a Tiger That Destroys Me’ Panel at NecronomiCon 2019 moderated by Allen B. Ruch and featuring Eric Schaller, Gabriel Mesa, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, plus Reviews from The Weird with Gordon B. White including In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady (Trepidatio), Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise (Broken Eye Books), and The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (New Directions). The panel was recorded live on Saturday August 24, 2019, and Reviews from The Weird was recorded Thursday October 22, 2019.
Reviews from The Weird
Producer Anya Martin introduces the episode and Gordon B White reviews In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady (Trepidatio), Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise (Broken Eye Books), and The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (New Directions).
Show Notes
(0:16:35) In this podcast The Outer Dark airs ‘This Is a Tiger That Destroys Me’ Panel at NecronomiCon 2019 moderated by Borges scholar Allen B. Ruch and featuring Borges-collector Gabriel Mesa, and writers Eric Schaller and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Latin America has a long and rich history of strange literatures. The panelists explored this history and the similarities between literature from the traditions of Magical Realism and Latinx Surrealism and anglophonic Weird Fiction through an in-depth discussion of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy-Casares, Gabriel García Márquez, Laura Esquivel, Virgilio Piñera, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Angélica Gorodischer, Clarice Lispector, Amparo Dávila (who Silvia Moreno-Garcia calls ‘the Shirley Jackson of Mexico’), Mariana Enriquez, Samanta Schweblin, and more. Scroll down to Additional Links for works by and additional info on these authors and others mentioned in this episode. The panel was recorded live on Saturday August 24, 2019.
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Additional Links
READ: ‘The Houseguest’ by Amparo Dávila (LitHub)
Jorges Luis Borges: Biographical Sketch (Shipwreck Library)
Victoria Ocampo (Sur literary magazine) (wiki)
READ: ‘The Feather Pillow’ by Horacio Quiroga
Photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (MoMA artist profile)
‘Twenty Questions with Angélica Gorodischer’ by Gabriel Mesa
READ: ‘There Are More Things’ by Jorges Luis Borges (The Book of Sand, 1975)
Ikea in the Fourth Dimension: Jorge Luis Borges’ “There Are More Things” by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth (Tor.com)
‘Borges, Burgin, and Infinity’ by Ryan Krull (The Millions)
Dead Ringers (Dir: David Cronenberg, 1988) trailer
amphisbaena (mythological creature, Wiki)
READ: ‘The Aleph’ by Jorge Luis Borges
READ: ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
READ: ‘Kafka and His Precursors” by Borges
READ: ‘Axolotl’ by Julio Cortazar
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Wiki)
Fun In the Funhole: Exploring Kathe Koja’s The Cipher by Max Booth (LitReactor)
The Temple of Iconoclasts by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
READ: ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’ by Marquez
Four Stories: ‘The Drowned Giant’ by J.G. Ballard by Christopher Burke (Weird Fiction Review online)
Samanta Schweblin: There’s No Place Like Home, Including Home Itself (LitHib)
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño (New Directions)
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso (David R. Godine, Publisher)
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza (And Other Stories)
Show Credits
Host/Executive Producer/Founder: Scott Nicolay
Host/Producer/Show Notes: Anya Martin
Co-Host, News From the Weird: Justin Steele
Reviews: Gordon B. White
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
1 comment
The panel makes frequent reference to Barton Levi St. Armand’s 1980 paper, “Synchronistic Worlds: Lovecraft and Borges.” It may be found online here:
http://shipwrecklibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/Paper-St.-Armand-Lovecraft-and-Borges.pdf