After an unplanned hiatus, we’re back with the wonderful Kij Johnson, who will be a guest of honour at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Kansas City this coming October. Small Beer will publish a new collection of Kij's work, The Privilege of the Happy Ending, to coincide with the convention.
We discuss the challenges and opportunities of teaching fiction writing in workshops versus university creative writing programs, how the workshop and the reading group have become so important to new writers since the early days of Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight’s Milford, the different problems of writing short stories, novellas, or novels, the balance between estrangement and immersion in stories, and Kij’s own current and recent work, which ranges from experimental fiction to stories that revisit older writers like Lovecraft and Kenneth Grahame.
As always, Kij is bristling with good ideas, and we could easily have gone on for another hour.
Episode 658: A resumption of normal service
Episode 657: Being Alvaro and Michael
Episode 656: Stop us if you've heard this one before
Episode 655: Kaaron Warren and the Underhistory of things
Episode 654: Paolo Bacigalupi and the Road to Navola
Episode 653: Lev Grossman and The Bright Sword
Episode 652: Ellen Klages and the Ham in Jeopardy
Episode 651: Vajra Chandrasekera and The Saint of Bright Doors
Episode 650: Tobi Ogundiran and the Guardian of the Gods
Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill
Episode 648: Genre, marketing, and more
Episode 647: Oh no, not us again...
Episode 646: Peter S. Beagle and a Life Filled With Story
Episode 645: Jack Dann and Fifty Years of Wandering Stars
Episode 644: Cozy books and a prickly writer
Episode 643: All Time Top 5s
Episode 642: Premee Mohamed and The Butcher of the Forest
Episode 641: Kelly Link and the love of books
Eating the Fantastic: Episode 217: Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
Episode 640: A new year begins. Shenanigans ensue?
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