From the monthly archives: September 2010
It’s Banned Book Week again, when we give a hard look at censorship and what it does, and what it costs us.
What interests me this year about censorship is we all have our threshold of appropriate. I look at some books, banned because of language or sexuality (homo or hetero) or witchcraft [...]
It’s another feedback show! Did I mention I love my producer! Work going very smoothly now. Look for a new show with comic writer and novelist Paul Cornell this Friday!
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I greatly enjoyed hanging with Hugo-, Nebula-, John Campbell-, and Locus-award-winning Paolo Bacigalupi at Balticon, and loved interviewing him. Also, I just finished The Alchemist and The Executioness, the two novellas written by Paolo and other ISBW favorite, Tobias Buckell. I am ashamed to say it took me a long time [...]
This week we bring you a long-overdue interview with author Peter V. Brett, author of The Warded Man and The Desert Spear.
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00:00:07 ISBW #155 00:01:10 State of the Mur: WorldCon in Australia, some journaling Recommended podcasts:
It’s tough being human. So much of our minds are still programmed by the millions of years of evolution. We no longer have to run from wild animals (well, most of us) and yet our body still has the built-in “fight or flight” adrenaline rush. I like to think that we’re fancy cars with a [...]
Sadly, this was recorded well before worldcon, but my new producer, Patrick Hester, is on the ball with the production so things should be smoother now!
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I just finished my read of The Hunger Games trilogy. I read The Hunger Games a while ago, and then became horrified when the book ended on a sort of cliffhanger. I refused to read book 2, Catching Fire, until book 3 came out. Which was last month. I recently re-read The Hunger Games (and [...]
EDIT- Holy volunteer firefighter, Batman! So many of you have stepped up to help out! Thanks so much! Will be in touch soon.
Here’s a secret- I Should Be Writing has trouble staying on schedule because I hate editing.
ISBW 154 is done. Has been done for two weeks. Now, I was traveling for most [...]
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