123 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — Monsters of the Deep Subconscious

Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Apollo 13 (film)

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (film)

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

• Our Flag Means Death (TV show)

• 112 Babel by R. F. Kuang — “Boots on the Ground” Storytelling

• Graham Norton Book Club episode with Julia Armfield

• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

• 122 How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu — Throw the Baby 

Recommendations:

• Arrival (film)

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

• The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

• This is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar and Gladstone

• Piranesi by Susanna Clark

• F(r)iction Issue #20 - Bodies

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• The Bear Season 2

• Home by Billy Strings (album)