Episode 10: Spooky Season with Kyle Winkler and Faust
We’re feeling spooky with horror author Kyle Winkler, back to discuss his latest novel, the creepy and horrifying Enter the Peerless, which starts with a private investigator trying to figure out what happened to a bunch of people who went into an abandoned trailer and never came out. Always a thoughtful and fun guest, Kyle gives us some insight into his process for this novel while establishing a mind-meld with Nathan over possible Halloween costumes.
Plus, Mason overreacts to an upcoming novel being based on the Faust myth, and demands a moratorium on Faust retellings. Will the literary establishment take note?
Enter the Peerless by Kyle Winkler is out now.
Works Cited this episode:
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
Middlemarch, George Eliot
“The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jack Reacher books, Lee Child
Being John Malkovich, dir. Spike Jonze
Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Game, dir. David Fincher
The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Faust, Charles Gounod
The Devil’s Advocate, dir. Taylor Hackford
Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, Ed Simon
The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd
Dark Renaissance, Stephen Greenblatt
The Winter of our Discontent, John Steinbeck
Ulysses, James Joyce
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Warm Bodies, dir. Jonathan Levine
Coriolanus, William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare
Titanic, dir. James Cameron
Clueless, dir. Amy Heckerling
Hamlet 2, Andrew Fleming
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Odyssey, Homer
Spawn, Todd McFarland