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.

Gary is joined by the wonderful Nalo Hopkinson, who took a few minutes away from a busy semester of suddenly teaching online to chat about the pleasures of hydroponic gardening, catching up on TV shows like Supernatural and The Murdoch Mysteries, her own work on The New Decameron and DC Comics Sandman story House of Whispers, and Sharon Lewis’s film Brown Girl Begins, inspired by Nalo’s novel Brown Girl in the Ring.

Books mentioned include:

• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
• House of Whispers (#s 1-22) by Nalo Hopkinson & Dominike Stanton
• How Long Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
• A New Decameron: Stories for a Plague Year edited by Jo Walton, Maya Chhabra, & Lauren Schiller
• Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, & John Jennings

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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 one of our most important novelists, Kim Stanley Robinson, joins Gary for a chat that touches upon the challenges of maintaining a consistent narrative voice in longer works, Daniel Defoe and the origins of the historical novel, Stan’s own new monthly column for Bloomberg Green, and his forthcoming novel, The Ministry for the Future.

Books mentioned include:

• Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• Daniel Defoe: His Life by Paul R. Backscheider
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

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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 chatting with Kate Elliott, who calls in from her home high on a hillside overlooking the Pacific to talk about her love of reading history, Alexander the Great, the naval history of the Second World War, the importance of reading what works for you at a time like this, and her forthcoming novel, Unconquerable Sun.

Books mentioned include:

• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
• Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great by A. B. Bosworth
• Æthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
• Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire by Anne F. Broadbridge
• Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

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.

Gary chats with World Fantasy Award-winner Mary Rickert on being cautious during the lockdown, reading Dracula for the first time, the rewards of contemplating individual words and their etymologies, revisiting Ray Bradbury, and Mary’s own forthcoming work.

Books mentioned include:

• You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories by M. Rickert
• The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert (forthcoming)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
• Thin Places by Kay Chronister

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