Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Gary is joined by science fiction's dean of baseball stories Rick Wilber, whose most recent collection is Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination, to discuss the virtues of Kim Stanley Robinson, the appeal of Korean baseball or the minor leagues, and why baseball has such a strong appeal for mainstream literary novelists and writers from the United States.

Books mentioned include:

• Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination by Rick Wilber
• Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Resisters by Gish Jen
• Enemy Rising: The Cursed Chronicles by C.J. Fisher
• The Night Soldiers novels by Alan Furst