The (first) Brian Evenson Interview
Brian Evenson is an academic and acclaimed, award-winning author of novels and stories spanning every conceivable genre. Naturally he is also a Wolfe fan.
Links:
* Blending Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer at Tor.com
* brianevenson.com
* bibliography
* "The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell"
* Interview at Los Angeles Review of Books
"I returned to Wolfe a few decades later because of a student’s interest in his The Fifth Head of Cerberus and realized that Wolfe (along with the very different J. G. Ballard) had had a deep subterranean impact on me as a developing writer, almost without my knowing. I feel like I’ve learned a tremendous amount from him since, as I’ve systematically gone through and read all of his work."
* Civilian Reader Interview
Q: "What inspired the novella? And where do you draw your inspiration from in general?"
A: "It was inspired partly by Gene Wolfe’s novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus. I think that’s such a deft little novella — all three parts of it, but the first part especially — and is really satisfying to read. I think I began there, with an admiration for that book, and then let it take me somewhere slightly different. Lurking in the background are aspects of the world and character characteristics of my novel Immobility, though it’s set in a somewhat different place."
* Coode Street Podcast Interview
"Gary K. Wolfe spends 10 minutes with Brian Evenson to discuss his relationship to genre, reading catastrophe fiction, the rewards of reading Gene Wolfe and Algernon Blackwood, and his forthcoming collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell."
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Bonus: John Crowley talks about Hamlet's Mill and a little bit about Wolfe
tBotNS 1:27 Is He Dead? - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:26 Sennet - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
Bonus: Jack Dann talks about Gene Wolfe’s influence on the genre and his own Renaissance Man career
tBotNS 1:25 The Inn of Lost Loves - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:24 The Flower of Dissolution - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:23 Hildegrin - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:22 Dorcas - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
Bonus: Michael Swanwick talks about his Nebula/Hugo winning career and about Gene Wolfe
tBotNS 1:21 The Hut in the Jungle - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:20 Father Inire's Mirrors - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:19 The Botanic Gardens- Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:18 The Destruction of the Altar - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:17 The Challenge - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:16 The Rag Shop - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
tBotNS 1:15 Baldanders - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
Annotation Side Two - The First Severian - Interview with Michael Andre-Driussi
Annotation Side One - The First Severian - Interview with Michael Andre-Driussi
Bonus: Marc Aramini and James Discuss the Long/Short Sun & Why They Disagree
tBotNS 1:14 Terminus Est - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun
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