Episode 177: Boys, Beasts & Sam J. Miller
Eating the Fantastic
English - August 05, 2022 12:38 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBooks Arts Fiction Science Fiction food fantasy sciencefiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Catch up with Sam J. Miller over khachapuri as we discuss the 1,500 short story submissions he made between 2002 and 2012 (as well as the one story which was rejected 99 times), the peculiar importance of the missing comma from the title of his new collection Boys, Beasts & Men, his technique for reading collections written by others, why the Clarion Writing Workshop was transformative, how Samuel R. Delany gave him permission, the way his novels and short stories exist in a shared universe, the impossibility of predicting posthumous fame, the superpower he developed via decades of obscurity, the differing ideas of what writers block means, and much more.