This month our genre is Nordic/Scandinavian Noir! There’s coldness and darkness in fiction, blood on snow, screaming children, and we ask (and answer) whether Iceland has pizza. Plus: Brendan Fraser in Caveman, P.I.!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• Woman with Birthmark by Håkan Nesser
• My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen
• Copper Heart by Leena Lehtolainen
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
• • The Keeper of Lost Causes (Film)
• Moscow Noir
• • Akashic’s City Noir Series
• The Caveman by Jorn Lier Horst (plus all the rest of the William Wisting series that is currently translated in English)
• • Suggested that you read the series in order. The first one with an English translation is Dregs
• Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• • Yrsa Sigurdardottir takes viewers on a tour of Iceland
• Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík by Arnaldur Indriðason
• The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Interlude

Special guest, Steve Thomas from the Circulating Ideas podcast!

• Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
• Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
• Joseph Brodsky: “The reason English-speaking readers can barely tell the difference between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky is that they aren’t reading the prose of either one. They’re reading Constance Garnett.”
• Translation Wars – New Yorker article about translations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
• Episode 006 – Books in Translation

Other Media We Mention

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• • Let the Right One In (film)
• The Killing (Danish TV series)
• The Killing (U.S. TV series)
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
• • Episode 043 – Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)
• The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• Frozen Tracks by Åke Edwardson
• Oldboy (film)
• • Matthew’s spooky hallway
• Dublin Murder Squad Series by Tana French

Links, Articles, and Things

• Where is Scandinavia? By CGP Grey
• Episode 004 – Psychological Thrillers
• Ungdomshuset (“the Youth House”)
• Freetown Christiania
• Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book
• Literary Iceland Revels In Its Annual ‘Christmas Book Flood’
• The statue of the monk hitting the seal
• • Sæmundr fróði
• Icelandic names
• Hygge
• BAMF Girls Club: A live action video crossover series with Lisbeth Salander and Hermione (and more)

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 7th, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente.

Then come back on Tuesday, August 21st, when we’ll be talking about Non-fiction Food and Cooking!