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Episode 447: Ten Minutes with Kathleen Jennings Jun 13, 2020

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Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so with Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated writer and artist Kathleen Jennings to discuss reading and working in the time of the pandemic, the comfort of regency romances, illustrating The Tallow Wife, watching Hamish Macbeth, her new short novel Flyaway, and much more.

Books mentioned include:

Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
Chalk by Paul Cornell
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Witchmark by C. L. Polk
Alternate Routes by Tim Powers

Episode 446: Ten Minutes with Ellen Datlow Jun 12, 2020

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Ellen Datlow joins Gary to discuss her 40-year career, the longevity of earlier editors, her reasons for doing best-of-the-year anthologies and year-in-review essays, favorite writers like William Gibson and Jonathan Carroll, the recent Shirley Jackson biography, and the appeal of dark fiction.

Books mentioned include:

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles edited by Ellen Datlow
Edited By edited by Ellen Datlow
Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll
Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
Flicker by Theodore Roszak
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
Worse Angels by Laird Barron
The Deep by Alma Katsu
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Episode 445: Ten Minutes with Saad Z. Hossain Jun 11, 2020

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Today Jonathan fires up Skype and call Dhaka in Bangladesh so he can talk to Saad Z. Hossain, the wonderful author of Escape from Baghad, Djinn City, and Locus Award nominee The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday about living and working in Dhaka at a time like this, the state of genre fiction, what he's been reading, his upcoming new novella Kundo Wakes Up and more.

Books mentioned include:

Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda
Miles Cameron series
The Novels of Jane Austen
The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks

Episode 444: Ten Minutes with DongWon Song Jun 10, 2020

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Today Jonathan spends a bit more than ten minutes talking to literary agent and editor DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency -- whose newsletter Publishing is Hard is essential reading -- about publishing during the pandemic, coping with being an involuntary voluntary shut-in, what he's reading and working on, and much more.

Books mentioned include:

The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan
Savage Legion by Matt Wallace
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

Episode 443: Ten Minutes with Indrapramit Das Jun 09, 2020

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Today Jonathan fires up Skype and points it towards Kolkata to talk to Lambda Award winner and Crawford, Otherwise, and Shirley Jackson nominee Indrapramit Das about getting through the Great and Terrible Pause, what books he is reading and recommends, and his new story, "Incarnate", which appears in Ann VanderMeer's Avatars Inc. anthology.

Books mentioned include:

The Devourers by Indrapramit Das
Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
"The Mist" by Stephen King
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernández

Episode 442: Ten Minutes with Nicola Griffith Jun 08, 2020

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Today Gary is joined by multiple award-winning author Nicola Griffith and they discuss the less-than-satisfactory challenges of the virtual cocktail party, the more satisfactory challenges of researching historical fiction and of reading Patrick O’Brian and others, the advantages of using genre as a set of tools rather than a container, her own So Lucky, her forthcoming sequel to Hild, and an exciting new as-yet-untitled book.

Books mentioned include:

Nicola Griffith, So Lucky
Nicola Griffith, Hild
Nicola Griffith, The Aud Torvingen mysteries
Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: The Vow, translated by Tiina Nunnally
Maggie Brookes, The Prisoner’s Wife
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Patrick O’Brian, The Aubrey/Maturin novels
Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave
Rosemary Sutcliffe, Sword at Sunset
Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet
Ellen Galford, Moll Cutpurse: Her True History

Episode 441: Ten Minutes with Lisa L. Hannett Jun 07, 2020

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Today Jonathan sits down to chat with Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning writer Lisa L. Hannett about reading, writing and life during lock-in, the joy and challenges of suddenly being home all the time, her brand new book, and much more.

Books mentioned include:

Songs for Dark Seasons by Lisa L. Hannett
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Her Perilous Mansion by Sean Williams
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Ruth Galloway Novels by Elly Griffiths
Galore by Michael Crummey

Episode 440: Ten Minutes with Terry Bisson Jun 06, 2020

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Gary joins Hugo and Nebula-winning author Terry Bisson to talk about historical fiction, R.A. Lafferty’s most important novel, James Salter, reading Shakespeare’s history plays, the Globe Theater, Cecelia Holland, The Blair Witch Project, Terry’s own classic short stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They’re Made of Meat," and his brilliant but overlooked novel of the 1960s, Any Day Now.

Books mentioned include:

Any Day Now by Terry Bisson
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Okla Hannali by R.A. Lafferty
Last Night: Stories by James Salter

Episode 439: Ten Minutes with Daryl Gregory Jun 05, 2020

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World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory comes on board for a discussion with Gary about how distracting the news can be from real work, reading manuscripts for blurbs or for friends, the new Lavie Tidhar novel, Island of Dr. Moreau movies, the virtues of Iain M. Banks, the occasional pleasures of locked-room murder mysteries, and Daryl’s own forthcoming but not yet titled novel.

Books mentioned include:

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr

Episode 438: Ten Minutes with Adrienne Martini Jun 04, 2020

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Gary is joined by fellow Locus reviewer and author Adrienne Martini, whose recent book on participating in local politics has gained sterling reviews and even a shout-out from Hillary Clinton. They discuss the importance of local politics, the fate of the famous explorer ship Erebus, and the appeal of Mary Robinette Kowal and Robert A. Heinlein.

Books mentioned include:

Somebody's Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at the News Won't Save the Nation, But Your Name on a Local Ballot Can by Adrienne Martini
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Friday and the Lazarus Long novels by Robert A. Heinlein

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