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Joy Williams\' third novel, Breaking and Entering, is the story of lovers who break into strangers\' homes and live their lives for a time before moving on. First published in 1988, it is a book impossible to describe, a work of singular vision and sensibilty that is as infectious in its weird effect as it is unforgettable for the quality of its prose.

In this episode, the novelist, spiritual thinker, and acclaimed podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to explore how the novel\'s enchantments rest on the uniqueness of Williams\' style, which is to say, her bold embrace of ways of seeing that are hers alone. Williams is an artist who refuses to work from within some predetermined philosophical or political idiom. As Habib tells your hosts, she goes her own way, and even the gods must follow.

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REFERENCES

Conner Habib, "Joy Williams: The Best Fiction Writer Alive"

Joy Williams, Breaking and Entering
\\nJoy Williams, The Quick and the Dead
\\nThe Paris Review, Interview with Joy Williams
\\nHeraclitus, Fragments
\\nJoy Williams, \\u201cBreakfast\\u201d in Taking Care
\\nBret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
\\nThe Phantom Stranger, DC Comics character
\\nJames Joyce, Ulysses
\\nEugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros
\\nDeleuze and Guatarri, What is Philosophy?
\\nQuentin Meillassoux, French philosopher
\\nDavid Mamet, On Directing Film
\\nDavid Mamet, True and False
\\nNicholas Winding Refn (dir.), The Neon Demon
\\nJoy Williams, \\u201cCongress\\u201d
\\nJoy Williams, \\u201cHawk\\u201d
\\nStephen Sexton, If All the World and Love Were Young
\\nScott Burnham, Mozart\\u2019s Grace

Special Guest: Conner Habib.