Episodes
Sunday May 17, 2020
Episode 420: Not Locked Down, Locked Up
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
It’s been two weeks since Jonathan and Gary sat down to chat for the podcast. In the interests of social distancing, they’ve had a replica of the Gershwin Room built a socially responsible distance away from the original so they can talk safely. This time out they chat about science fiction, what they're reading, a theoretical fictional clade that encompasses the work of Philip Jose Farmer, Jack Chalker and Lavie Tidhar, and more.
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Saturday May 16, 2020
Episode 419: Ten Minutes with Kelly Robson
Saturday May 16, 2020
Saturday May 16, 2020
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 talking to the spectacular Kelly Robson who is in the very centre of the centre of the universe in Toronto and they talk about reading and working during these strange times, finding favourites like Octavia Butler a little too intense for the moment, and how the sequel to Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach might be turning into a novel.
Books mentioned include:
- Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
- Monkey Work" by Kelly Robson
- "La Vitesse" by Kelly Robson (in The Book of Dragons)
- Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert M Hazen
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Friday May 15, 2020
Episode 418: Ten Minutes with Joe Monti
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
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 chats with Saga Press editorial director Joe Monti who has worked with some of the best writers and artists in science fiction and fantasy and has worked as a literary agent and as a book buyer for a major book chain. In a serious mood, they talk about the impact of the Great and Terrible Pause on book publishing, what Joe has been reading, and what he's publishing.
Books mentioned include:
- The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
- Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
- The Down Days by Ilze Hugo
- The Kingdom of Liars by Nick Martell
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Machine by Elizabeth Bear
- The Residence by Andrew Piper
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Thursday May 14, 2020
Episode 417: Ten Minutes with Alyx Dellamonica
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
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 sits down with Alyx Dellamonica to talk about writing Dealbreaker - the sequel to their L.X Beckett novel Gamechanger - how living through the pandemic sometimes feels like being stuck in Brendan Fraser's 1999 movie Blast from the Past, the wonders of science, and the comfort of fine crime novels.
Books mentioned include:
- Gamechanger by LX Beckett
- Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner
- The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) by Tana French
- The Aud Series (The Blue Place, Stay, & Always) by Nicola Griffith
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Episode 416: Ten Minutes with Brian Evenson
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
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.
The distinguished "literary horror" icon Brian Evenson chats with Gary about his relationship to genre, whether or not it’s a good idea to read catastrophe fiction in a time of catastrophe, the rewards of reading Gene Wolfe and rereading Algernon Blackwood, and his own forthcoming story collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell.
Books mentioned include:
- Last Days by Brian Evenson
- Catastrophe and Other Stories by Dino Buzzati
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe
- A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe
- Incredible Adventures by Algernon Blackwood
- The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
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.
Gary is joined by science fiction's dean of baseball stories Rick Wilber, whose most recent collection is Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination, to discuss the virtues of Kim Stanley Robinson, the appeal of Korean baseball or the minor leagues, and why baseball has such a strong appeal for mainstream literary novelists and writers from the United States.
Books mentioned include:
- Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination by Rick Wilber
- Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Resisters by Gish Jen
- Enemy Rising: The Cursed Chronicles by C.J. Fisher
- The Night Soldiers novels by Alan Furst
Monday May 11, 2020
Episode 414: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Hand
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
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.
The multi-talented Elizabeth Hand joins Gary for a discussion of writing in different genres and the good fortune of having readers who follow you from one to the other, the pleasures of returning to Tolkien or to classic ghost stories, the delights of the TV series The Detectorists, and her upcoming noir crime novel, The Book of Lamps and Banners.
Books mentioned include:
- The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand
- "The Owl Count", in Conjunctions 74: Grendel’s Kin
- Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" by Stephen King
Sunday May 10, 2020
Episode 413: Ten Minutes with Joe Abercrombie
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
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.
As the great and terrible pause grinds on Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to Joe Abercrombie about reading for research, Shelby Foote, westerns, some books he's reading, and his own new books, A Little Hatred and The Trouble with Peace.
Books mentioned include:
- A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
- The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
- Lionheart by Ben Kane
- Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich
- The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
- Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry