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 this strange time.

Today Gary spends ten minutes with multiple award winner Andy Duncan, touching upon vintage stand-up comedy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, classic UFO lore, Sarah Pinsker’s prescient yet hopeful novel Song for a New Day, and his own forthcoming story, “The All Go Hungry Hash House”.

Books mentioned include:

• An Agent of Utopia by Andy Duncan
• How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
• “The All Go Hungry Hash House” by Andy Duncan in Galactic Stew.

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 this strange time.

This time around Gary spends ten minutes with World Fantasy and Nebula Award-winning author Ellen Klages, who most recently added the New York Historical Society Children’s Book Prize and the Ohioana Book Award for Out of Left Field to her resume. It turns out that Jonathan persuaded her to try the first volume of Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series—the same ones he and James Bradley discussed on an earlier episode of Ten Minutes with…  She’s also been getting into locked-room murder mysteries.

Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages
• The Sean Duffy series by Adrian McKinty
• While the Clock Ticked (The Hardy Boys) by Franklin W. Dixon
• The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen
• The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, ed.
• The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan, ed.
• Chopped, a TV reality/cooking/game show

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 this strange time.

Today Jonathan spends Ten Minutes with Garth Nix, who talked about Hilary Mantel, Oliver Cromwell, and more. Garth’s Angel Mage is out now and The Left-Handed Booksellers of London is due soon (though not soon enough for one unnamed Coode Streeter).

Books mentioned include:

• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Angel Mage by Garth Nix
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
• The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan

Today Gary spends Ten Minutes with Naomi Kritzer, whose wonderful YA novel Catfishing on CatNet is a finalist for this year’s Andre Norton, Edgar, and Minnesota Book Awards, and whose Tor.com story “Little Free Library” is available on April 8.

Books mentioned include:

• The Years that Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough
• The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
• World of the Five Gods series by Lois McMaster Bujold
• “So Much Cooking,” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)
• “Little Free Library,” by Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com)
• A New Decameron: Stories for a Plague Year by Jo Walton ed. (Patreon.com)