Reading the Smoke
By Gary Budden & F. Sdrigotti
Reading the SmokeMar 05, 2021
Purgatory: Notes from the (London) Underground
For the second episode of Reading the Smoke Gary and Fernando discuss London's unconscious: the Underground. What is it with the Underground that inspires dark thoughts? Tune in for a discussion of Irenosen Okojie's Walk With Sleep (from Speak Gigantular, Jacaranda, 2016) and the work of Eley Williams, Gastón Bachelard, E.F. Benson, Michael Vincent, Mike Ashley (editor), Conrad Williams, and Craig Taylor among others.
CW: this episode contains passing references to suicide (one of the topics Okojie's story deals with).
Hell is a City Much Like London
For the first episode of Reading the Smoke Gary and Fernando chat about Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell. Why beyond its potentially cliched subject matter this graphic novel is still a very relevant survey of 19th century London, Late Modernity, the occult, and much more.
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