Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'
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The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatural as it subsists in the "sub-Zeitgeist" of the modern secular West. In 2021, Strange Attractor Press released Neighbor George, Nelson\'s first novel. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss this gothic anti-romance with a mind to seeing how it contributes to Nelson\'s overall project of acquainting us with the eldritch undercurrents of contemporary life.
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References
\\n\\nVictoria Nelson, Neighbor George
\\nVictoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
\\nVictoria Nelson, Gothicka
\\nWendy Lesser, American critic
\\nWard Sutton Onion cartoons
\\nExtension, metaphysical concept
\\nTerry Castle, The Female Thermometer
\\nCessation of Miracles, theological belief
\\nE. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
\\nGreg Anderson, \\u201cRetrieving the Lost Worlds of the Past: A Case for the Ontological Turn\\u201d
\\nOrcus Grotto, sculpture
\\nMargaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
\\nNathalie Cooke, Margaret Atwood: A Biography
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 96 on Beauty and the Beast
\\nM. C. Richards, \\u201cWrestling with the Daemonic\\u201d