"Turns out holding secrets can be bad for you."

Interview with Rudy Rucker

"It's shameful and dirty and disgusting"

Steve Toltz discusses his novel Here Goes Nothing.

"The stories were after me ...."

"I'm amazed to be taken so seriously as I am."

Signing

Joe R. Lansdale and Cecelia Holland

Everybody's Joiking

Ramona Emerson discusses her novel Shutter.

Red Moon

Non-Conciliatory Fantasy

Bringing Back Night Shade from the Undead

Playing Monopoly and Revising History

"Any kind of horror film that played on television, I watched."

Instead

Dept. of Speculation

"It was a bit like a dam breaking"

Spellwright

"...twenty things that are too cool not to use..."

'The Cut'

Michael Katakis discusses Dangerous Men.

Novels

"Well, I don't want to get cured."

Portrait of the Artist as Pixels

Agony Column Podcast News

The Teller View

"The human has to fret and agonize over this..."

Dennis Etchison, Peter Atkins and Glen Hirshberg discuss the dark.

"

"It was the most amazingly eventful and magical summer..."

Homeland

Invention Versus Tradition

Economic Crisis and Opportunity

Elegy Beach

Terry Bisson, Malinda Lo, and Chaz Brenchley

Comedy Vs. Tragedy

You

"...she abolished capital punishment..."

"Is there an essential self?"

Report from the Writing Life

Fiction or Science Fiction

5,000 Words A Day

'The Forgotten Man : A New History of the Great Depression'

Pleasure Boat Studio

"It's an urban war in Iraq."

"...it would not have been true to his character..."

Jeffrey Ford, John Kessel and Delia Sherman

"...we create myths, we create religion, we create beliefs..."

Science fiction cinema, three kinds of storytelling, memory.

Prepping for 'Drood'

Drinking Reindeer Blood

The Bourbaki New Math Hoax Exposed

The Truth Hurts School of Humor

Douglas Coupland on Hey Nostradamus! and Spirituality

"Hitler's top scientists became America's own."

Overseeing Borges

Narrative, Shock value, horror

Little Green

Robert J. Sawyer and Rachel Swirsky with Terry Bisson

A Dolphin for President

Classics, language, female quest stories, Alice in Wonderland

Agony Column Podcast News Report : NPR All Things Considered Report

Mark Bittman in a long-form interview.

"There was a second hoax about a shuttle mission..."

Agony Column Broadcast from KUSP Sunday, February 15, 2009

"You just hope you get to have that whole second act with your children."

'The Commoner'

'The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War'

"This was the world's first tech start-up."

"Writing a novel like this is like inviting the zeitgeist in for tea."

"It troubles me..."

"Everything becomes fodder for the novel"

The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

"The Haves Do Rather Well"

Sorrel's Heart

"The Pharmako books go way back to a vision I had of something I was going to call 'The Poet's Guide to Drugs'...."

Raisins d'etre.

The Last Word

'helping me help myself'

"..the strengths of good writing go all the way, across all the genres..."

Christopher Brown discusses his book Tropic of Kansas.

Part Two

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind

Paul McComas and Steven Sullivan discuss Uncanny Encounters.

"...we've made these strange mirrors...."

Comedy and Eco-Tragedy

Drama

"I began to see art as a kind of activism"

"I wanted a book about survivors"

Joby Warrick discusses Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World.

'Promise of the Wolves'

"...it devastates the people around the polio victim..."

'The Billionaire's Vinegar'

Richard Bottoms Interviewed

"Booth's Ghost"

Daryl Gregory discusses his novel about an American family of psychics, Spoonbenders.

"I am sorry to have to tell you this."

"...we see him as a tragedian because is life is a tragedy..."

"I really think you need to respect the antsyness of kids."

Compelling reading.

Life After Life

Debaptism

Five Authors of a Second Novel

"I remember having this feeling of literally wanting to slip out of my skin, shed my skin and turn into someone else."

"Sometimes your life just feels like a story" Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir

November 15, 2008

Loren Rhoads discusses life, death, everything in-between and her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die.

"..if any of you have ever spent any time in academia, you can imagine what this meant..."

One Book, Many Lessons

"...some people were surprised that I could be writing such dark material and then lead the rest of my life..."

Choose to Disagree

"It's about the release of information ..."

Be prepared.

"I have a lot of rage."

Andrew Komarnyckyj discusses Ezra Slef: The Next Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Labor, Film and Mayday

Not Quite Richard Bachman

"Tibet, in those days, was truly unknown..."

Jeff Guinn discusses his masterful biography of Jim Jones, The Road to Jonestown.

Fail to scale.

"I wanted to savor how really cool it is to hang out with superheroes"

Colson Whitehead discusses The Underground Railroad.

"So first, I decided, OK, I'll get rid of the Christian mythology ...."

Let's Sing

A Reading From 'Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile'

Illustrating Robert E. Howard

Beginnings, Books of Blood, Hellraiser

Ash

Riding the Drive In Omnibus

Manal al-Sharif discusses her powerful memoir Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakning.

Tattered Cover

"I'm still in the war zone..."

"...he told me about this new job in high-level catastrophe risk consulting."

"...I decided I wanted to write pieces that I might have written if I was thirty years old in 1875."

" I really wanted to get to the heart of America..."

"...it's all about the details..."

"The Meat Is Not You" Music by Billy C Reed, Dan Ranalli, Rick Kleffel

Company Man: Thirty Years of Crisis and Controversy in the CIA

"I guess we're always just talking, poets, about a handful of things...I've never read it before, let me see if I even have it here."

"Wednesday is Indigo Blue"

Christine Carter in a long-form interview about her book The Sweet Spot.

"I let him go over and I was comfortable with that..."

Book People

Christopher Brown discusses Rule of Capture.

Seveneves

George Saunders discusses writing the stories in Liberation Day.

"It just makes no sense that one little island with terribly bad cuisine would take over the world."

Lies, Damn Lies and Therapy

"...I was writing characters who did not understand the world that they came from..."

Jennifer Egan discusses Manhattan Beach.

The Professional Cockroach and other Tales of Terror

"If you write about the future you have to face that the whole world has changed.

"We all question ourselves from time to time."

From the "Podcast" to the "Web-O-Net"

"At the center of religious life, for all these faiths, was compassion."

Interview With Ping Pong Fiction Editor Jessica Breheny: Speculative Fiction

"I'm always kind of a fantastical writer."

Panel Discussion Moderated by Terry Bisson with Rudy Rucker, K. W. Jeter, and Jay Lake

Lili Wright discusses her new novel Dancing With the Tiger.

Jeff Vandermeer discusses Hummingbird Salamander.

Promise of the E-Book

Sweden

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

"I follow most of the laws, right?"

Adam Benforado discusses A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All.

The Health Care Customer's Bill of Rights -- "I'm for the single payer."

"Oh, I could kill him."

"...if we all see the same thing, we're all seeing entirely different things..." - Josh Mohr "It's much rarer these days that everybody reads the same books and talks about it. - Matt Stewart

Preview For Podcast of Monday February 26, 2007

Teacher Man

"This is a scam of unbelievable proportions"

eff Goodell discusses his book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World.

Mary Roach discusses her new book Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.

"...one of the first books I ever wrote was a Bobbsey Twins novel..."

"I would check the Home Security Website a few times a week."

"In the novel it gets very, very dark and it's sort of Lord of the Flies for the 21st century."

"The name Watts is from a John Hughes movie called Some Kind of Wonderful..."

"It becomes its own strange kind of normal..."

Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House', Amanda Coplin, 'The Orchardist', Eowyn Ivey, 'The Snow Child'

"It's us, the everyday people who change that world."

Justin Cronin discusses his new book The City of Mirrors, which completes The Passage trilogy.

Agony Column Podcast News : Scrubbing the Wordscape

"In crime, we're dealing with passions."

The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"..comedy and horror are almost the same thing, it's just the lighting is different."

A 2016 interview with Steven Toltz about his novel Quicksand.

Ringing in the Changes

Edge City, Singularity and Beyond

"I don't view any of my characters as being crazy..."

Shannon Leone Fowler discusses her memoir Traveling With Ghosts.

"...the land people don't talk to the sky people don't talk to the water people..."

Simon Rich, Elliot Allagash

Briefly Interviewed

"...I looked up some of the old books..."

Sandman Slim

The Flame Alphabet and The Vanishers

"This is NewSpeak."

'Little Bee' Part 2

"..this young suicide bomber, I asked, 'Are you ready to die?' and he said, 'Absolutely.'" David Rohde "He was literally in a foreign country and I was suddenly thrust into a whole new world; FBI agents, private security contractors..." Kristen Mulvihill

Thomas Frank Joins the Snake Flag Set

"You do all this background information, most of which never makes it into the book."

"Interesting things happening to interesting people"

Breakdown

"Off With Their Heads!"

"Yvonne seemed to be emerging above the surrounding mountains."

Trek: Lips, Sunny, Pecker and Me

A 2016 mini-interview with Dan White about his book Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping.

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer, The Passage by Justin Cronin

"I started typing ...."

"I'll begin with the epigraph, which is from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species."

China Dolls

Terry Bisson, Peter S. Beagle, Mark Ferrari Discuss Fantasy

"...his family thought that he was just an aircraft engineer, but he was working for the CIA..."

Tor Books Sets Up Shop

Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, David Eagleman, Sum, Special Guest Star: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Rob Reid discusses Silicon Valley, super-intelligence and narration and his novel After On.

"I was always worried about where Godzilla left his droppings..."

Are We There Yet?

"There will be a test." – Terry Bisson

Deborah Grabien, Michael Boatman and Janis Bell

Laurie R. King and Karen Joy Fowler on Politics and Literature

"I kind of rejoice when I wake up from a dream..."

Rick Wartzman discusses working with (and against) Walmart in the creation of his book Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism.

"...please like me, this will make up for Hebrew school if all of you like me.."

Agony Column Podcast News : 'February Flowers' and 'God of Luck'

America's Only Horror-Only Bookstore

"...people are hesitant to make their own building into a ruin..."

Andrew Sean Greer discusses his book Less.

"You Blundering Idiot, You Fucking Failed to Kill Me Again"

"She was not at all religious but she did believe in guilt."

"Insects become a way of making sense of the world."

"It was a really amazing testament to the power of small-town America and to the power of organized religion at its best."

SF in SF March 16, 2008

Tachyon Publications Presents SF in SF

The Book Is 'Overclocked', The Man Is Overbooked

"It was actually fun creating the dynamic between Destiny and Fate."

"There are too many ifs in that sentence."

"I'd done a story on flatulence..."

The Abominable

"We find ourselves grappling daily at every level with questions we can neither bear nor answer."

WARNING Potentially VERY offensive and very entertaining.

'Yoruba Bata Goes Global'

How the corporations took over the government, how we can get it back.

"... an attempt to get at what it feels like to be alive..."

"Children No More"

The Doubt Factory

If It Comes to Pass.

The Wolves of Midwinter

Andrew Yang and Stephen Marche discuss their new novel, The Last Election.

"The Last Worders"

Lilith Saintcrow discusses her new book, Spring's Arcana.

"...a group of heavy hitters..."

"...so much is known so quickly..."

"...maybe we could carry on what Abbey has said before us..."

Rudy Rucker Reads from 'The Hollow Earth

"The money came from Washington, but the uses for that money came from the local community."

"These characters are called beaters..."

Narrative Voice

The Collector

Kim Stanley Robinson, Cecelia Holland, and Barry N. Malzberg

Midnight in Europe

"It's important to take a moment, take a beat, and express gratitude."

"...being at Small Beer has actually introduced whole worlds to me ..."

"Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel"

"Fiction is agonizing sometimes."

"...so now, for the first time, you could look inside people's heads..."

Artificial Intelligence Enters Brave New World

: Pros and Con-Ventions

"Crossovers and Melding Points"

1918 Flu epidemic, the afterlife, history, memory, aging, Karl Capek

Joyce Carol Oates, 'Black Dahlia, White Rose,' Gregory Benford and Larry Niven, 'Bowl of Heaven,' Charles Cumming 'A Foreign Country'

Handselling Books

Panel Discussion at SF in SF, March 16, 2008

"I loved the character too much and brought him back, and that's why it's science fiction and not history"

"...and you will notice that Antony has never stayed with any of the publishing companies he's founded..."

"...she could wake up the Bat Man who lives inside that tree..."

Idea Soup

Binding Energies

"I get to go to Paris twice a year for research."

"...there's something to be said for staying in your imagination."

James Frey on A Million Little Pieces

"I'm telling myself you bloody well better figure out where this is going because you have to start heading there sometime around now."

"I wanted to show how close reality and fiction are..."

Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Not the Same As the Old Weird

The best of the John Pelan Perfect Pitch Panel.

"If you've never..."

"I'm a research junkie"

San Francisco Noirs

An in-depth interview with Ron Lieber about his book The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money.

Neal Stephenson discusses Fall, or Dodge in Hell.

Welcome to Sutro Park

"...I knew the story was going to end with a woman waiting at a playground at night...."

"...the pug is going to steal the show..."

Allegra Goodman, 'The Cookbook Collector,' Noam Shpancer's 'The Good Psychologist' and Elie Wiesel 'The Sonderberg Case'

"For me, it's a way of bringing people together." - Ann VanderMeer

"We can't rely upon the non-scavengers to tell us how to behave, we have to tell ourselves how to behave"

Eric Hanson discusses his collection of stories, What I Was Afraid Of.

Breaking 'The Shotgun Rule'

Call Any Vegetable

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

Married writers, historical fiction

Kim Stanley Robinson discusses The Ministry for the Future.

"How much do we really change?"

Surrealism, fairy tales, minimalism

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death

Garrett M. Graff discusses his book Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die.

"My version of Cinderella does not have a fairy godmother..."

"Ignorance is an asset in the mind of the creative."

Jessi Klein discusses her new memoir, You'll Grow Out of It.

"Where's the beef, Mr. Lama?"

Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Swanwick, and M. Rickert

Tal M. Klein discusses his book The Punch Escrow.

Jennifer Egan discusses The Candy House.

"When we got a telephone, it was a big thing."

Speaking With Legend

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Gulp.

One Summer: America, 1927

"I wanted to create a man based on people I knew when I was there...""

Hilarious and definitely explicit. Be warned!

"That's an optimism which is made from granite."

Ann Leckie discusses The Imperial Radch trilogy and her latest novel set in the same universe, Provenance.

"Who Nobody Wants to Be"

"..they were Republicans, who left the Supreme Court, totally alienated from the modern Republican party..."

"Did I say..."

"It Was a Big Train Wreck"

"There were two people standing at the foot of the bed"

"A lot of my favorite comedy writers actually write horror"

Speaking of Demiurges

"Part of farming is having the crop go to somebody else besides you" Genre: Non-Fiction, Food, Farms, Memoir

"...being able to see what happens in the brain really helps us to understand certain things..."

Gemini

"I come from a storytelling family."

"What could be glowing, sulfurous yellow, within the water of a pool hidden beneath a lighthouse?"

'Radiance'

Laurie R. King discusses Riviera Gold.

Angela Slatter discusses her novel The Path of Thorns.

Local Area Networking

'Shadow Girl of Birch Grove'

"If we're going in the wrong direction, we could turn around and go back."

Next time, be there

A 2016 mini-interview with Adam Haslett about his book Imagine Me Gone.

A 2016 mini-interview with Tracy Chevalier about her novel At the Edge of the Orchard

'Insight Yoga'

Thunderer and Dickens

"...they didn't even make hijacking a crime..."

Lindsay Hatton discusses her new novel Monterey Bay.

Eavesdropping on the bus, Incendiary

"The manuscript even disappeared"

Joe R. Lansdale Interviewed

The Invisible Spectrum

"What we get back when we put it on someone else's neck, that's what's meaningful to us"

"...one somewhat tortured soul to be the center of the novel..."

Heading towards Iraq, virtuous fiction, and Ayn Rand

Man in the Wilderness

"The dog that runs away when you call its name"

Iris Yamashita discusses her mystery novel City Under One Roof.

From Bookseller to Movie Producer

"I knew it wouldn't work."

Nancy Etchemendy Reads from "Honey in the Wound'

Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and the Price of Gold

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

"The rhetorical moves are unbelievable."

A Wanted Man

"I think it's very useful for a writer to see their language from the outside."

: Maureen Corrigan So We Read On, Casey Walker Last Days in Shanghai, Ron Rash Something Rich and Strange, Nicholson Baker Traveling Sprinkler

2312

"...people need answers..."

A Perfect Blood

"From there, the book gets a little odd..."

The problem was much bigger than that.

A Good Take

Email Your Questions for Laurie R. King

Gutenberg's Apprentice

More's the Pity

Writing the Textbook

"...most of our politicians are morons..."

"There's a particular story that's going on here."

Little M@tch Girl

"They knew to be successful, they had to make waves."

"They still have to do their laundry, even if you're sleeping in dirt"

Lunatics

"...as real as Sherlock Holmes..."

SF in SF, March 16, 2008

Kathryn Petruccelli Poetry Recordings

"So often that's what scholars feel when they open a book for the first time, 'Oh no, this isn't what I thought it would be.'"

Wool

"I don't see monsters as necessarily, by definition, an evil thing."

The Bible According to Lamb

A 2016 interview with Thomas Frank about his book Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever happened to the Party of the People?

Josh Mohr and Steven R. Boyett

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

"Everyone knows everyone's business."

Elizabeth Spencer, 'Starting Over: Stories'; James Magnuson, 'Famous Writers I Have Known'; Dasa Drndic 'Trieste'

Jinny Soni and Rob Goodman discuss A Mind at Play:How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

'Sixty Days and Counting'

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

"I was kind of on my way down"

"I had to invent an evolving truth as the story unfolded."

Nightwoods

Zocalo Public Square

A 2007 Interview With Michael Krasny and Review of 'Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life'

"The future doesn't arrive and replace the past, it just piles up alongside it."

"There ought to be something you're afraid of in every novel that you write."

I Travel By Night

Panel Discussion

"Anything that you can do to make it easier."

The Author's Voice

In conversation with Daniel Handler about Bottle Grove.

"Line Break"

"We find ourselves grappling daily at every level with questions we can neither bear nor answer."

"..we wanted to combine our packs and combine our lives and they sold our house out from under us..."

"There was still this sense of hope."

"That stuff doesn't interest me"

The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking

"For me, therapy was the book, really."

Amanda Ellison discusses Splitting: The inside story on headaches.

"A very poisonous plant, and that is not to say that you should not grow it in your yard"

Tim Wu discusses The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.

"Self-censorship is profound as a Chinese author"

"Europe's southern border is the Sahara Desert."

'Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day'

"Newspapers have geography on their side."-Wallace Baine "Why isn’t the paradigm shifting even faster?"-Paul McHugh

Behind 'Secret Splendors of the Desert : Anza-Borrego Desert State Park', Part 2

"Would you call these stories fantasy or science fiction?"

"...the way I do it is working in circles..."

The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Mystery writer Laurie R. King on Cities in Noir Fiction; Genre: Non-fiction, Genre-fiction studies, Mystery Fiction

"...it's hard to have a decent relationship if those early relationships are fraught...."

Agony Column Podcast News : Legends in the Making

"I started typing ...."

John Langan discusses his novel of grief and cosmic terror The Fisherman.

"When you're writing for screen or TV, you're really only writing the cinematic."

Interview with K. W. Jeter

"The world is so twisted that my stuff looks normal"

"...those are the kind of people that don’t get work anymore..."

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"It never happens on the page ... I have to plot really carefully."

"I meant to spend all of November and December search through the old data sets, and I will admit to having looked at baby name books and developmental biology books..."

"...the machines of the Victorian age were built to last a very long time–" "Like the Titanic?"

Middles and Ends, Abarat, Tortured Souls, 500 Paintings in Beverly Hills

Dave Barry in a long-form interview.

A 2009 Report on Crime Fiction in Imaginary Cities

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Tony Broadbent and Martin Cruz Smith

Writing "Reading Grandpa's Head"

Live GeekSpeak Interview With Bill Tancer

Reality Frayed at the Edges

Maxmilian Uriarte discusses his new book The White Donkey.

They drink it and piss it up against a wall, or buy an expensive truck.

On the Road to Perdition

Emily Dreyfuss discusses the creation of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America co-written with Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg.

Naming Names, Dropping Names, Picking them Out

Your Questions, Answered

The Blondes

"The Power of the Edit Is a Mighty, Mighty Thing"

Loren Rhoads discusses life, death, everything in-between and her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die.

"I learned to write, as many authors do, by reading."

"...recalibrate my yardstick of weirdness..."

Fantasy and History

Douglas Abrams discusses The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World.

Willl Schwalbe discusses his life as a reader, books, the power of reading and his new book, Books for Living.

:"Ironically, confession is a little bit addictive."

Smart on Crime

AI Ain't What It Used to Be

A 2016 interview with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney about her novel The Nest.

Katherine Stewart discusses her book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.

Jonathan Carroll discusses his novel Mr. Breakfast.

"It's a first contact story where we don’t even realize that we're the ones being first contacted."

"I started typing ...."

Agony Column Broadcast from KUSP Sunday, January 4, 2009

The Prisoner of Heaven

Republic, Lost

"...a group of heavy hitters..."

One Less Year Between the Singularity Summit and the Singularity Itself

'Bumping Into Geniuses'

The Wolf Gift

Table-Turning the Upside-Down Classics

"...I knew that he would not want to leave the police force..."

Cover Story

A Not-So-Quick-Guide to Writing in China

"It's a good place to set a science fiction novel."

Killing off the cast, brutal reality and fantasy economics

"I don't know."

"...good candidates for being thoughts from god..."

"... he was such a voracious reader ..."

High-Quality Direct from NPR MP3

"I have a tendency to get into trouble"

"I could be a poet."

Ten Rules for Writing

Joe Hill discusses his new book The Fireman.

"Us old farts know a bit more about what the history of the field has been"

"I really liked that idea of one of the characters eavesdropping and the things that she would be aware of in that housing community."

'Kill Bin Laden' ; Ryu Mitsuse, '10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights' ; Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, 'Micro'

Robert Littlell, 'A Nasty Piece of Work' ; Gene Kerrigan, 'Dark Times in the City' ; Robert Stone, 'Death of the Black-Haired Girl'

"...she pulled on my coat and said, 'You have to help me...'"

Vernor Vinge Informs Us That 'Rainbows End'

T. C. Boyle discusses The Terranauts.

"...coming to Paris from provincial, colonial Virginia absolutely changed Jefferson..."

A 2016 interview with Ian Rankin about his novel Even Dogs In The Wild.

"..trying to create a reality which had not existed before..."

"I blow stuff up real good."

Taking on NY

"Can we use that?"

Hand Drying in America

Kim Stanley Robinson discusses The High Sierra A Love Story.

"...we're out of control, and we're a nation built on giant lies."

Alexander Weinstein discusses the stories in Universal Love.

The Miracle Detective.

'The Gargoyle'

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

"I had to do it; it was a way of both coming to terms with the experience, of documenting the experience, of commemorating it..."

Robert Wright discusses his book Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment.

Reply without regret.

Enon

Thomas Frank Unbuilds Glen Beck

T. C. Boyle discusses The Terranauts.

The Bondmaid's Tale

Steven Kotler discusses his book co-written with Jamie Wheal, Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work.

"Lambing Season"

"Maybe it's the Hello Kitty."

Amos Oz, 'Rhyming Life and Death,' Elmore Leonard, 'Road Dogs' and Rory Clements 'Martyr'

"I read for a couple of years and this family came into my mind..."

Easy, Fast, Delicious Fresh and Left Over

"Quote"

Novella, Novel and Steampunk

'Lucy' by Laurence Gonzalez, 'Spies of the Balkans' by Alan Furst, 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' by Jennifer Egan

'IQ84' by Haruki Murakami, 'Assumption' by Percival Everett, 'Zone One' by Colson Whitehead

The Unknowns

"I write in order to see what comes next."

A 2016 mini-interview with Steven Toltz about his novel Quicksand.

Man Seeks God

Ace Editor

A Codex Seriphianus Holiday

"I plan an hour to two hours every day, talking with the readers."

"You cannot do this all day long." Sophie Littlefield

Jennifer Ackerman discusses her book The Genius of Birds.

Ayize Jama-Everett reading from 'The Liminal People,' backed by Fanyang Smith.

"Even inside the bubble, you find yourself fairly alone..."

Sabaa Taahir discusses her Laia and Elias novels An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night.

Hearing Voices

Not enough future to go around.

Reports From a Divided Nation

Live at KUSP

The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret and The Fatal Flame

"Literature Will Lose"

Hopefully this will offend someone.

Richard Kadrey discusses The Grand Dark.

Xiaolu Guo Film News

Christopher Brown discusses his novel Failed State

The Buried Giant

"...you change how you would be in real life...”

The Demiurge : God Wakes Up

'The Astral' by Kate Christensen, 'Miss New India' by Bharati Mukherjee and 'Robopocalypse' by Daniel H. Wilson

"Science is just another myth, in that sense..." Howard V. Hendrix

"I mean, they had their chance, you know?"

Jennifer Ackerman discusses her book The Genius of Birds.

Secular Twilight: Non-Fiction, Political and Cultural Reporting

Robert Repino discusses Malefactor.

Interview With Ping Pong Poetry Editor James Maughn

"I'm gonna write it ... and if Viking doesn't publish it, everyone can just come over to my house and look at it on my laptop."

"...Heaven and Hell couldn't be an open, on-going dramatic conflict; it would be more like the Cold War.:"

"...he has to be a hero just to be there..."

"...it's a somewhat Utopian situation in space, and still a somewhat grim and screwed up situation on Earth..."

'Dragon's Treasure'

A conversation with the author of 'Isolation Ward'.

NASA

Let Me Be Frank with You

"It's very easy for someone to put the word penis or orgasm into these databases"

Gentlemen Marijuana smugglers, Real estate development

REAMDE

Advertising Days

Vlad Kreimer discusses music,art, Russia, and the Lyra-8.

: Daniel Silva, 'The Defector', Colum McCann, 'Let The Great World Spin'

The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Performances: 12:03 PM

Daniel H. Wilson discusses his book The Clockwork Dynasty.

A Cure by Color

Weddings and Divorces

"...out of fear, that I would end up..."

Everything You Need to Aunt

Back to Blood

"How to celebrate the best of what our community has to offer"

Scary Monsters and Super-Creeps

5 hours of Cephalotron mix plus one hour of Dream Journal soundtrack.

Words Without Pictures

Tea Obreht discusses Inland.

Nathan Ballingrud discusses his novel The Strange.

"...the first book was going to contain about a hundred years of implicit future history..."

Siri

"...I walked away from that meeting in 2008 with an old friend of mine and literally saw at least the outline of the book in front of my eyes..."

"...I think it's real at the same time that's it's magic–" "Sometimes the stories that we tell are more real than a bunch of facts."

Insane City

Hard-Boiled Alternate Regency Mystery

Antiquarian Bookseller

'Where Light Takes Its Color From the Sea'

"...this guy went on to be a private investigator for years and years and he still does it..."

Post Mortem. Original Air Date 06-16-2007.

Enchanting Q AND A

"..they did Jimmy Olsen that, didn't they?" - John Shirley

"We made the first observation and BAM there was the disconnection effect..."

"A fundamentally ethical crisis"

Interview with Claude Lalumiere

West of Sunset

"...I did all sorts of things to get the voiceiness..."

An in-depth interview with Ron Lieber about his book The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money.

Zeuglodon

'Blueprints of the Afterlife'