Ben Marcus reading Ishiguro

[John Bailey]

Here's a direct link for anyone not on the podcast wagon yet -
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/ben-marcus-reads-kazuo-ishiguro
Haven't listened to it but Ishiguro's pretty fantastic. Never Let Me Go is
an exquisite accomplishment and I'm glad I did as recommended and went in
knowing nothing about it.

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it really has an identifiable genre. Maybe you'd just call
> it literary. It has the kind of shadowy scenic qualities of Kafka, which
> influence a lot of people mention re: Ishiguro. But Kafka's world is a bit
> more cartoonish on the surface, or in its weird darkness has this
> underlying mystical humor. Ishiguro's world in this story is I guess
> dystopian, which maybe is a helpful genre tag. It's (the world is) both
> more speculative and also more realistic than Kafka's worlds, and without
> much of the humor taking up the space in between its particles.
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And what genre is that?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Everybody knows the novels but one way to experience Ishiguro that I
>>> will recommend is Ben Marcus reading Ishiguro's story, "A Village after
>>> Dark," for the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Very good pairing, one of the
>>> only standouts from that particular genre for me.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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