{"id":7515,"date":"2026-07-12T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:45:56","slug":"episode-725-amal-el-mohtar-and-the-seasons-of-glass-and-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2026\/07\/12\/episode-725-amal-el-mohtar-and-the-seasons-of-glass-and-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 725: Amal El-Mohtar and the Seasons of Glass and Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seasons-of-Glass-and-Iron-Cover.jpg\"<\/a>This week, Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award winning writer and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose first story collection\u00a0Seasons of Glass and Iron<\/em><\/a>\u00a0appeared earlier this year, and whose novella\u00a0The River has Roots<\/em> has won Nebula and Locus awards for 2026.<\/p>\n

We talk about our favorite stories in the collection, a diverse range of writers including Patricia McKillip, J.R.R. Tolkien, Hope Mirrlees, Virginia Woolf, and Charle de Lint, and about Amal\u2019s own experiences as a writer of Lebanese descent living in Canada and Glasgow.<\/p>\n

We hope that what the discussion lacks in focus, it makes up with Amal\u2019s sharp insights as a writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism (in her occasional New York Times Book Review<\/em>\u00a0columns).<\/p>\n