Welcome to The Lost Shelf! the podcast where we invite writers to rescue a neglected work of genius from obscurity.

In Episode Five, Art O'Connor and Lauren Oyler get lost in Péter Nádas' magisterial "A Book of Memories". They discuss historical bodies, sex, the epistemology of touch, sex, and what memory does to the remembering subject. And sex. They consider Nadas' novel in relation to the work Federici, Musil, Mann, Elaine Scarry, and Proust, among others.

NB: Lauren and Art make several references to a passage Lauren read. We removed the passage because we've been warned that nobody watches videos that begin with a reading. (Your feedback is welcome!)

Many thanks to the wonderful Lauren Oyler, Emmet White, Justin Young, and the whole team at The Whistleblower.

Title song: 'Harry Clarke' by Clara Tracey - https://open.spotify.com/album/3laGIMZUEhM0sYvICIgDge

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Welcome to The Lost Shelf - the podcast where we invite writers to rescue neglected works of genius from obscurity!

In Episode 4, Art O'Connor and Niamh Campbell discuss Marie Calloway's short story "Adrien Brody". In a rich and wide-ranging conversation, they explore sexual politics, ironic exhibitionism, tradwifery, George Eliot vs Jane Austen, millennial self-destruction, and the importance of a system of manners.

Errata: Several failures of nomenclature occur in this episode. First, Art and Niamh hallucinate that Adrien Brody's name is misspelled in the story's title. It is not! To compound this error, they then mistakenly attribute to Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent, the opinions of Louise Perry, Daily Mail journalist. Our apologies!

Thanks so much to Niamh Campbell, Emmet White, and the whole team at The Whistleblower.

And a special thanks to the great Colleen Green for giving us permission to use her song "I Wanna Be Degraded" as our title music. We're huge fans of her work.

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Welcome to The Lost Shelf! - the podcast where we invite authors to rescue a neglected work of literature from obscurity.

In Episode 3, Art O'Connor and Megan Nolan discuss Davis Grubb's 1953 thriller "The Night of the Hunter". Their conversation explores the novel's Gothic sensibility, historical conceptions of childhood, and Charles Laughton's celebrated film adaptation. They also consider the work of Leslie Fiedler, the nature of innocence, and the materialist strain in the American imagination.

Erratum: James Agee's "A Death in the Family" is set in Knoxville on the Tennessee River, not the Ohio River. Thanks to the wonderful Megan Nolan, Emmet White, and the whole team at The Whistleblower.

Title song: 'Harry Clarke' by Clara Tracey - https://open.spotify.com/album/3laGIMZUEhM0sYvICIgDge

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