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Podcast: Brothers in Armchairs
Episode: Nightmare Alley (2021)
Description: Today’s show is a discussion and review of the 2021 American Neo-Noir Psychological Thriller Nightmare Alley. In 1946, Author William Lindsay Gresham, published his novel Nightmare Alley, which was a study of the lowest depths of showbiz and its sleazy inhabitants - the dark, shadowy world of a second rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales. Gresham’s book is considered to be one of the finest American novels of the 20th century. Pulitzer-Prize winning book critic Michael Dirda stated, “I was utterly unprepared for its raw, Dostoevskian power…it’s not often that a novel leav...