This time around, I'm joined by multi-award-nominated-and-winning author Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender)! Sam reads from his trunked novel, Blue Matter, which leads us into a great conversation about YA, the ways that genre books are in conversation with each other, and why we're ultimately glad that our journeys as creators have been the shapes they are.
Things we mention in this episode:
The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller
Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller
The Blade Between, by Sam J. Miller
Michael Pollan
Ted Chiang
The Clarion Workshop
Octavia Butler
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
John Bellairs
Joan Aiken
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss
Mutual assured destruction
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
RuPaul's Drag Race
Aikido
Be the Serpent, Episode 91
Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Iambic pentameter
"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
Hudson, NY
This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar Max and Gladstone
Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The Unbroken, by C. L. Clark
The Death of Jane Lawrence and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling
Boys, Beasts & Men, by Sam J. Miller
Sam's website and insta
Join us again next month, when I'll be talking to R. J. Theodore and Ivy Noelle Weir!
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