Charlotte is haunted by the lack of violence in Swedish dystopias (Kallocain by Karin Boye and Amatka by Karin Tidbeck) while Jo (17:00) delves into the controlled and uncontrolled horror of medical history in Human Medical Experimentation, ed. Francis R. Frankenberg. Pissed Jeans’ thoughtful frontman Matt Korvette joins (27:00) to share his trenchant take on menace and neighborly predation in Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer. 

Other books discussed in this episode: Emmanuel Carrère's V13: Chronicle of a Trial, J.D. Daniels' The Correspondence, and Robert C O'Brien's Z for Zachariah

Matt Korvette is a writer, critic, lyricist and performer, best known as the vocalist of Pissed Jeans. He resides in Philadelphia, PA.

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Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com

Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com.

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