Episode 459 Ten Minutes with P. Djèlí Clark

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.

Today Jonathan spends about ten minutes or so talking to Nebula Award-winning writer P. Djèlí Clark about reading, writing, and working during these strange and difficult times, what he’s been reading and what you might read, his novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (and accompanying story “A Dead Djinn in Cairo“), his upcoming novel, and much, much more.

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Episode 458: Ten Minutes with Raymond E. Feist

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.

Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to international bestselling writer and creator of the Riftwar Cycle, Raymond E. Feist, about Shakespeare; reading, writing, and working during this strange and difficult time and; briefly, that time he saw The Beatles.


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Episode 457: Ten Minutes with Sean Williams

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.

Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Adelaide to chat to one of Australia’s best and most adept writers of speculative fiction, Sean Williams, about reading, writing and working during the pandemic, what he’s reading, what he’d recommend, what he’s working on, and his terrific new middle grade novel, Her Perilous Mansion.

Books mentioned include:

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Episode 456: Ten Minutes with Isobelle Carmody

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.

Today Jonathan spends ten minutes calling farthest Brisbane to talk to national treasure and author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, Isobelle Carmody, about reading and writing during the pandemic, the creative challenges of writing, what she’s been reading, and much, much more.

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Episode 455: Almost Outta Gas, But We Can See The Golden Age…

Left once again to their own devices, Jonathan and Gary turn to the question of what was science fiction’s real golden age—not in terms of overall literary history or the old cliché that “the golden age of science fiction is twelve,” but rather what seemed like a golden age in terms of reading habits: when you fell in love with SF, how the genre continued to be rewarding during that time, and what was especially important about it. For Jonathan, that looked more like the 1980s, while for Gary it was basically the 1950s. Both agreed, however, that the current era might itself be seen as a golden age, for many reasons.