Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs

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Music

• Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480

• Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence

• Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.

• The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.

• Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

• Sustainable from H. Takahashi.

Notes

• There's a particularly good article • by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar.

• You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here • , if you haven't already.

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