{"id":7389,"date":"2025-12-14T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:27:22","slug":"episode-702-the-coode-street-advent-calendar-2025-day-14-wole-talabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2025\/12\/14\/episode-702-the-coode-street-advent-calendar-2025-day-14-wole-talabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 &#8211; Day 14 &#8211; Wole Talabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/739890\/convergence-problems-by-wole-talabi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/i5gjeg47iquub72r\/convergence.jpeg\" alt=\"convergence.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/a> For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, <a href=\"https:\/\/wtalabi.wordpress.com\/\">Wole Talabi<\/a>, to discuss the books he&#8217;s been reading, what he&#8217;d recommend, his brand new novella &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/talabi_05_25\/\">Descent<\/a>&#8221; and the Sau\u00fativerse, and his forthcoming second novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/astrapublishinghouse.com\/2025\/11\/04\/acquisition-announcement-wole-talabi-fist-memory\/\"><em>The Fist of Memory<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, our thanks to Wole for taking the time to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy the chat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 14 - Wole Talabi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=wiepa-19ec67e-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, Wole Talabi, to discuss the books he&#8217;s been reading, what he&#8217;d recommend, his brand new novella &#8220;Descent&#8221; and the Sau\u00fativerse, and his forthcoming second novel, The Fist of Memory. As always, our thanks to Wole for taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2025\/12\/14\/episode-702-the-coode-street-advent-calendar-2025-day-14-wole-talabi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 &#8211; Day 14 &#8211; Wole Talabi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-advent-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}