Olga Ravn on THE WAX CHILD

Told from the perspective of a wax doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child is a chilling tale inspired by a real group of women accused of dark magic in seventeenth-century Denmark. Olga joins us to talk about her craft, the power of ritual, collective memory, creepy children, and contemporary Scandinavian literature with cohost Jenna Seery.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books:

The Wax Child by Olga Ravn

The Employees by Olga Ravn

alphabet by Inger Christensen

The Condition of Secrecy: Selected Essays by Inger Christensen

it by Inger Christensen

How I Became a Nun by César Aira

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Dark Spring by Unica Zürn

The Man of Jasmine and Other Texts by Unica Zürn

The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn

The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen

The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

On the Calculation of Volume, Book I by Solvej Balle

After the Sun by Jonas Eika

Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof

Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: Amendment to the Theory of Sexuality by Sara Stridberg