A Meal of Thorns 11 – THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM with Garrett Bridger Gilmore

A Meal of Thorns

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Credits:

• Guest: Garrett Bridger Gilmore
• Title: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• “The Horror At Redhook” by H.P. Lovecraft
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle
• The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
• “The Lovecraft Boomlet” of adaptions/retellings/reworkings
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Get Out directed by Jordan Peele
• Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run, Between the World and Me, The Water Dancer
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• The World Fantasy Award
• Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor LaValle
• James by Percival Everett
• Aida Levy-Hussen’s How to Read African American Literature- reparative & prohibitive readings
• Toni Morrison’s Beloved
• P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• HPL’s At the Mountains of Madness
• "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" by The Mountain Goats, from Heretic Pride
• Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors
• R.F. Kuang’s Babel, or The Necessity of Violence
• Garrett's twitter
• Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood