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 227: Ken Liu, Joe Monti and The Grace of Kings
Episode 226: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Signal to Noise
Episode 225: Biancotti, Lanagan, Westerfeld and Zeroes
Episode 224: Kelly Link Gets in Trouble
Episode 223: Alisa Krasnostein, Sean Wright, Tehani Wessely and the Aurealis Awards
Episode 222: Forthcoming Books with Liza Trombi
Episode 221: Joe Abercrombie and Sean Williams at the Perth Writers Festival
Episode 220: William Gibson, Eileen Gunn, and Chris Brown
Episode 219: On Short Story Collections and such
Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano
Episode 217: James Morrow, SF, Satire, Religion, and Other Matters
Episode 216: Guy Gavriel Kay and the Legend of the Lost Podcast
Episode 215: On Short Stories, the Possibility of Ruts and other matters
Episode 214: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Live in DC!
Episode 213: Helen Marshall and Robert Shearman
Episode 212: James Bradley and the Year in Review
Episode 211b: Kij Johnson and Reimagining Genre’s Past
Episode 210: Genevieve Valentine and all the things
Episode 209: The Beginning of the End of 2014
Episode 208: Caitlin R Kiernan, Peter Straub and the literary uses of fantasy
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