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Bookmark: Afterwords #1 - The Tintin Literary Mixtape

Umapagan Ampikaipakan, resident literary critic

01-Mar-16 14:30

Bookmark: Afterwords #1 - The Tintin Literary Mixtape

Literature doesn’t exist in isolation, it inspires and is inspired by… everything… by everything around us. Afterwords will focus on literary connections and how it touches and is touched by everything around it. The show will be about the various ways we come to read the things we read, it will answer questions like what Shakespeare and The Beatles have in common, it will bring together Camus and The Cure, but mostly, it will hopefully make you want to go out and not just read more, but read differently.

This week: Tintin as the key to modern literature.

Show Notes:

i) It's not an easy read, but I do urge you to check out Tom McCarthy's Tintin and the Secret of Literature. It may make you question everything you loved about your childhood, but boy it really is quite the ride.

ii) If you're anything like me, then Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon would have you interested in the following reads:

Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon
Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff
Norman Mailer's Moonfire

iii) For a great history on Tintin check out Michael Farr's Tintin: The Complete Companion

iv) Reading Tintin would naturally also lead you to Goscinny, to Lucky Luke, and to Asterix the Gaul.

v) For more stories about adventurous journalists check out Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, and Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.


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