Show Notes
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, essayist, and cultural critic known for her sharp, inventive prose and genre-defying work. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including American Genius, A Comedy and Men and Apparitions. Her latest book, Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories, published in 2025, showcases four decades of her short fiction. We also mention The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim and Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr.
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Susan Finlay is the author of the novels The Ultraviolet Catastrophe, The Jacques Lacan Foundation, My Other Spruce & Maple Self, Objektophila, and Arriviste, and the anti-memoir, The Lives of the Artists. Her books have been White Review Books of the Year, Anti-Capitalist Books of the Year, and many independent bookstore and art galleries' Recommended Reads.
This week we have the incredible Charlie Fox. Charlie came into the Worms studio to talk about his brilliant new book, Drool, out now with Rough Trade Books, and we are seriously obsessed with it! If you like Camilla Grudova, Angela Carter, A.M Homes, or just the wonderfully strange then this book is for you Charlie talks us through his writing process, what it's like hanging out with actual wolves, and opens up about his own writing neurosis during a little literary therapy session.
The first guest of our new season is the incredible MARTINE SYMS, whose exhibition Knot Eye is currently on at Sadie Coles. Martine stopped by the Worms Studio to share her diary before getting extremely candid about her journey with endometriosis, seeing a demon in Target, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, and much more.
Isabella Burley is a creative consultant based in London and New York. Most recently she served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Acne Studios. From 2015 to 2021, she held the position of editor-in-chief at Dazed & Confused, taking the helm of the youth culture title at just 24 years old. She is the founder of Climax Books.
Lauren Elkin is an award-winning French and American writer and translator, most recently the author of Vocal Break, a book that explores the transformative space where women’s voices shift between registers, blending memoir, feminist critique, and cultural history.