RadioDoc Review Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 11 February 2018 Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The hS adows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction Neil Verma Northwestern University, Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr Part of the Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, and the Radio Commons Recommended Citation Verma, Neil, Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The hS adows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction, RadioDoc Review, 4(1), 2018. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The hS adows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction Abstract This essay is a study of The Shadows (2018), a series produced by Kaitlin Prest and Phoebe Wang for CBC Podcasts. I situate the work in the framework of Prest’s career after her podcast The Heart, and argue that The Shadows crystallises a set of conventions about “audio fiction” that set it apart from “audio drama,” “radio features” and other similar forms, at least at this particular historical moment. These conventions include: the embrace of naive themes; a preference for retroversion or 'queer temporality'; a focus on body sound; multiplication in mixing and editing that comes across as a multiplication of voice and consciousness; the prominence of inanimate objects as orienters; and an aesthetic of suspended poignance. Keywords Audio Fiction, Kaitlin Prest, Phoebe Wang, The eH art, The hS adows, Love, Feminism, Sex, Radio This article is available in RadioDoc Review: https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/vol4/iss1/11 Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The Shadows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction By Neil Verma The Shadows: an audio fiction podcast in six episodes.