This week, Lobo and Trash dive into the wonderland of literature dealing with afflictions of the body and the mind. From Madame Bovary to Jenny Odell, and from Andrew Solomon to Lucy Grealy, they travel through pain, insights, perpetual orgies, revelations, and identity politics.
The perpetual orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy
Heather Sellers, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know