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 275: Jack Dann and PS Australia
Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
Episode 274: A step to the left...
Episode 273: Here we go again
Episode 272: Awards, anthologies and all the usual stuff
Episode 271: Lavie Tidhar and pushing at boundaries
Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
Episode 270: Spinoffs, copyright, awards and such
Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
Episode 269: Creating the Fantasy Canon
Episode 268: Peter Straub and Interior Darkness
Episode 267: Neil Clarke and Short Fiction
Episode 266: Prolificity and Academia
Coode Street Roundtable 1: Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself
Episode 265: David Hartwell and the beginning of 2016
Episode 264: Glen Cook and Steven Erikson
Episode 263: Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Episode 262: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Charlie Jane Anders in Saratoga
Episode 261: Gene Wolfe, John Clute and A Borrowed Man
Episode 260: The Best of the Year with Charlie Jane Anders and Nisi Shawl
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