62. If You’re Going to San Francisco...

Louise and Virginia jet off to San Francisco in the episode, where they discuss the origins of the City and County, and why it became the home and haven for people wanting to discard façades and identities they may have held in their home towns. They also discuss the original gold rush and the modern tech gold rush and the impact these have had on the city, as well as the serialisation of novels and they way this can shape the overall architecture of a novel. They also revisit the issue of Nazism and the presence of monsters living in plain sight among us. Books The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 1941Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, 1978Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende, 1998Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, 2012Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, 2016Television Clarkson’s Farm – PrimeMy Mother and Other Strangers, BBC, ABC iViewBlogLiterary Hub by Megan Abbotthttps://lithub.com/megan-abbott-on-the-difference-between-hardboiled-and-noir/