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 187: On the perception of SF today and some rambling
Episode 186: Hugo Awards 2014 with John DeNardo and Tansy Rayner Roberts repost
Episode 185: Heinlein, Awards and such
Episode 184: Nnedi Okorafor and Lagoon
Episode 183: On nominating for the Hugos and Lucius Shepard
Episode 182: Steven Erikson and Ian McDonald
Episode 181: Eileen Gunn, questionable practices and the purposes of science fiction
Episode 180: Kelley Eskridge, Nicola Griffith, Hild, historicity and genre...
Episode 179: James Bradley, Garth Nix, Sean Williams and Australian SF
Episode 178: On importance and important science fiction
Episode 177: Kij Johnson, science fiction and the Booker Prize
Episode 176: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Recommended Reading List.
Episode 175: We return and talk about new books in 2014
Episode 174: Rachel Swirsky Redux
Episode 173: Ellen Datlow Redux
Episode 172: Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop Redux
Episode 171: Graham Joyce redux
Episode 170: Live with Neil Gaiman
Episode 169: Live with Paul McAuley
Episode 168: Terminology, hard SF and other inexactiudes
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