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.
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Episode 528: Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future
Episode 527: Ten Minutes with Madeleine E. Robins
Episode 526: Ten Minutes with Linda Nagata
Episode 525: Ten Minutes with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Episode 524: Ten Minutes with Delia Sherman
Episode 523: Ten Minutes with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Episode 522: Ten Minutes with Andrea Hairston
Episode 521: Ten Minutes with Lisa Goldstein
Episode 520: Ten Minutes with Jeannette Ng
Episode 519: Ten Minutes with Stephanie Feldman
Episode 518: Ten Minutes with Andrea Stewart
Episode 517: Ten Minutes with Jane Routley
Episode 516: Ten Minutes with Annalee Newitz
Episode 515: Ten Minutes with Ellen Kushner
Episode 514: Alix E. Harrow and The Once and Future Witches
Episode 513: Ten Minutes with Candas Jane Dorsey
Episode 512: Ten Minutes with Micaiah Johnson
Episode 511: Ten Minutes with Cecelia Holland
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