Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be viewed as a regional author (a Texan in particular), and which other writers might be thought of a representing particular regional voices (R.A. Lafferty, Andy Duncan, Christopher Rowe, Daryl Gregory?), and how regional voice may show up even in the work of hard SF writers like Gregory Benford. This leads into a more general discussion of influences. Are films based on Philip K. Dick now more influential than Dick’s novels themselves? How are innovative writers like Greg Egan (who just turned 60) and Ted Chiang seen as influential?
This leads, somehow, into a discussions of how writers like Dick, Lovecraft, Le Guin, Octavia Butler made it into the Library of America, and finally to the importance of international and regional anthologies such as Oghenchovwe Donald Ekpeki’s new Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. As always, we also touch upon what we’re reading this week.
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Episode 416: Ten Minutes with Brian Evenson
Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber
Episode 414: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Hand
Episode 413: Ten Minutes with Joe Abercrombie
Episode 412: Ten Minutes with Michael Swanwick
Episode 411: Ten Minutes with E Lily Yu
Episode 410: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Episode 409: Ten Minutes with Kelly Barnhill
Episode 408: Ten Minutes with David Pomerico
Episode 407: Thirty Minutes with Nnedi Okorafor
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Episode 405: Ten Minutes with James Patrick Kelly
Episode 404: Ten Minutes with Nalo Hopkinson
Episode 403: Ten Minutes with Kim Stanley Robinson
Episode 402: Ten Minutes with Kate Elliott
Episode 401: Ten Minutes with M. Rickert
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