Author Interview: AnaMaria Curtis
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I wanna tell you before we get started how much I love your voice as a writer.
Oh my gosh. Thank you.
It's just it's so beautiful and The glass city Like it really spoke to me. And then when I read your interview with Caroline Where you talked about this sort of springing from experiencing loneliness, I was like, that is exactly why it landed on me so hard. I'm just really excited to talk with you about it.
Oh my gosh. I'm so thrilled. I just love what you're doing with the podcast. I will say I was listening to The Coffin Maker to remind myself of the story. I usually hate rereading my own work and listening to you narrate it, I was like, I it just like you were able to give my own words back to me in a way that was just like amazing and has not usually Works.
I have heard that sentiment from a lot of your colleagues in the creative community. Those exact words. I don't like to reread my own stuff. I really don't go back to it at all. A couple of authors have told me I listened to you narrate my story and it was like I was hearing it for the very first time. And like I was like, oh, who wrote this? It's really good.
I there were times where I was like, Well, yeah, be and because of the life that you were able to give it. So I just I was really thank you. Just super impressed and honored honestly that you chose to narrate my work.
Thank you. I want to share credit with Gabrielle on the other side of the glass. We are a wonderful creative team. I feel like together we pull something out of the creative ether that I can't find on my own. I can see it, but I can't touch it. And then when we work together, I pull it all out. And it's a privilege. You're the first author I've narrated twice for the podcast. And that was like really exciting for me when Michael. Paul sent me his batch of submissions. I was like, oh man, I love her. And then I went straight to that to see what he had found for us. I'm just thrilled. And I guess I should get to these questions that I wrote down. I want our listeners and our viewers to know about the interview that you did with Carol and Joachim for Uncanny Magazine, because it's really it's a wonderful interview.
It's incredibly insightful. It's not that long. And she asked you a lot of questions about this and also about where it came from. And I wanted to start. with something that you guys talked about and it's the genesis of this story being a feeling of loneliness. To get inside the glass city. You have to literally tear off all of your skin. You have to become and like remain completely exposed, completely vulnerable. Which I presume dovetails with the feeling of loneliness that you get when you're outside of it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why does Wil start the episode with a quirky LA weather story and a Quince sheets ad?
0:00–10:49
2
How does AnaMaria describe the emotional impact of hearing her own stories narrated?
10:49–19:52
3
What inspired the metaphor of the Glass City and how did it develop?
19:52–30:04
4
Why does the story feature a dog, and what does the dog’s death symbolize?
30:04–40:11
5
How did AnaMaria approach the challenging revision and ending of The Glass City?
40:11–49:40
6
What writing process advice does AnaMaria give to emerging short‑fiction authors?
49:40–54:05