John Kessel has long been a favourite of the podcast. We spoke to him in July about his major new retrospective short story collection, The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, so it’s no real surprise that he’s part of our Advent Calendar.

Today Gary had the pleasure of calling John and chatting about what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, and what he’s been working on. As always, we thank John for taking the time to talk to us and hope you enjoy the episode.

With a week left to go in the Advent Calendar, Jonathan sits down with Neon Yang to discuss what they’ve been reading, what they’ve read that they’d recommend, their holiday recommendations, and their exciting debut novel, space opera The Genesis of Misery!

As always, our thanks to Neon, and we hope you enjoy the episode!

The Coode Street Advent Calendar rolls on through December and today Gary sits down with Shirley Jackson and Locus Award nominee Richard Butner to discuss what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his holiday reads, and his wonderful new collection, The Adventurists.

As always, our thanks to Richard for making time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

We’re halfway through December and more than halfway through our Advent Calendar. Today Gary sits down with one of the most interesting and diversely creative writers working in science fiction today, Lavie Tidhar, about his new novels Neom and Maror, his many other projects, as well as what he’s been reading lately and would recommend.

As always, our thanks to Lavie for making the time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

Aurora award winner Sarah Tolmie chats with Gary about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, her holiday recommendations, and her fabulous new novella All the Horses of Iceland (Tordotcom), which was one of our favourite books of the year.

As always, we’d like to thank Sarah for making the time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode.