Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column
Episodes
1431: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 85: Dave Barry
15 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Insane City
1430: Steven Gould Reads from Impulse at SF in SF on January 19, 2013
13 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"This full-disclosure thing would take some getting used to."
1429: A 2013 Interview with Cory Doctorow
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"Student debt is the new sub-prime."
1428: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 84: Cory Doctorow
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Homeland
1427: Panel Discussion with Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon Moderated by Terry Bisson from SF in SF January 19, 2013
07 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...the very difficult choices women still have to make between their career and their kids..."
1426: A 2013 Interview with Ian Rankin
04 Feb 2013
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"Everything I know about writing I've learned from reading books."
1425: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 83: Ian Rankin
01 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Standing in Another Man's Grave
1424: Laura J. Mixon Reads from Child Left Behind at SF in SF on January 19, 2013
30 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...out of fear, that I would end up..."
1423: A 2013 Interview with Tracy Kidder
28 Jan 2013
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"I always have a reader in mind, and that's Dick Todd."
1422: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 82: Tracy Kidder
28 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
1421: Thomas Frank From The Easy Chair
24 Jan 2013
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"...they should be running a much larger deficit...."
1420: A 2013 Interview With Jojo Moyes
21 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...it would not have been true to his character..."
1419: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 81: Jojo Moyes
19 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Me Before You
1418: A 2012 Interview with Ken Scholes
16 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...I was writing characters who did not understand the world that they came from..."
1417: A 2012 Interview with Laird Barron
15 Jan 2013
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"I kind of rejoice when I wake up from a dream..."
1416: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 80: Laird Barron
14 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
1415: Three Books with Alan Cheuse
11 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House', Amanda Coplin, 'The Orchardist', Eowyn Ivey, 'The Snow Child'
1414: A 2012 Interview with Andrew P. Mayer at SF in SF on October 12, 2012
09 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...characters become their ideas, become their ideals..."
1413: A 2012 Interview with Fariba Nawa
07 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"...she pulled on my coat and said, 'You have to help me...'"
1412: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 79: Fariba Nawa
04 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Opium Nation
1411: Lee Child at Google November 31, 2012
20 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...it goes beyond to a kind of consolation ..."
1410: A 2012 Interview with Lee Child
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"To me, there is only one draft."
1409: Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Hazenuts from Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express
15 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Easy, Fast, Delicious Fresh and Left Over
1408: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 78: Lee Child
14 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A Wanted Man
1407: A 2012 Interview with Tad Williams at SF in SF on October 12, 2012
14 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...he has to be a hero just to be there..."
1406: A 2004 Interview with Graham Joyce
12 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I like offering the stories of these midlands people..."
1405: A 2012 Interview with Susannah Cahalan
10 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I remember them like dream-like states."
1404: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 77: Susannah Cahalan
09 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
1403: Ken Scholes, Andrew Mayer, and Tad Williams Discuss EPIC Fantasy Moderated by Terry Bisson on October 12, 2012
07 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...you could spend your entire career not having a career by going back and re-working the same five chapters..."
1402: Ken Scholes Reads at SF in SF on October 12, 2012
06 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"There was a time when I used to get up and preach..."
1401: A 2012 Interview with Justin Cronin
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"How do you re-assemble a world?"
1400: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 76: Justin Cronin
02 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Twelve
1399: A 2012 Interview with Charles Burns and Chris Ware
02 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"..Tolstoy, the greatest writer who ever lived, he focused on how ..."
1398: A 2012 Interview with Chris Ware
28 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"... an attempt to get at what it feels like to be alive..."
1397: A 2012 Interview with Charles Burns
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...you're getting information in different ways..."
1396: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 75: Charles Burns and Chris Ware
25 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Hive and Building Stories
1395: Tad Williams Reads at SF in SF on October 15, 2012
22 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...he is in Hell, he's wearing a demonic body..."
1394: A 2012 Interview with Craig Childs
19 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...we all want this to last..."
1393: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 74: Craig Childs
18 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
1392: A 2012 Interview with Junot Diaz
16 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...you have to produce the world where your characters and conflicts are set."
1391: Andrew P. Mayer Reads from 'Hearts of Smoke and Steam' at SF in SF on October 12, 2012
14 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...the weapon looked complicated..."
1390: A 2012 Interview with Louise Erdrich
12 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...there was nothing but assimilation."
1389: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 72: Louise Erdrich
11 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Round House
1388: A 2012 Interview with Michael Marshall Smith
09 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"It's about the release of information ..."
1387: A 2012 Interview with Cindy Pon at SF in SF
08 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"If I dig it, I write it."
1385: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 72: Tom Wolfe
04 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Back to Blood
1384: A New Podcast of the 2003 Audio Interview Interview with Douglas Coupland
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"..who's the person being redeemewd in the end?"
1383: A 2012 Interview with Roz Kaveney
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I quite enjoyed writing fan fiction, I found it very liberating."
1382: A 2012 Interview with Debra Dean
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...there's something to be said for staying in your imagination."
1381: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 71: Debra Dean
26 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Mirrored World
1380: Three Books With Alan Cheuse
26 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Carol Oates, 'Black Dahlia, White Rose,' Gregory Benford and Larry Niven, 'Bowl of Heaven,' Charles Cumming 'A Foreign Country'
1379: A 2012 Interview with Malinda Lo
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I found that describing the way a scene was lit actually helped a lot."
1378: A 2012 Interview with Jeffrey Toobin
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"..they were Republicans, who left the Supreme Court, totally alienated from the modern Republican party..."
1377: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 70: Jeffrey Toobin
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
1376: Cindy Pon Reads at SF in SF on September 15, 2012
17 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"His words were ice against her ear."
1375: A 2012 Interview with Gene Robinson
15 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I imagine having a conversation with one of them."
1374: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 69: Gene Robinson
14 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
1373: SF in SF Panel Discussion, September 15 2012: Roz Kaveney, Malinda Lo, Cindy Pon, Moderated by Rick Kleffel
12 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm a little bit of a namedropper." - Roz Kaveney
1372: A 2002 Interview with Ramsey Campbell
11 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"....to show the thing from the viewpoint of the monster...."
1371: A 2012 Interview with Robert D. Kaplan
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Europe's southern border is the Sahara Desert."
1370: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 68: Robert D. Kaplan
05 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Revenge of Geography
1369: A 2012 Live Interview with Joann Rose Leonard at Capitola Book Cafe
05 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...how our beliefs color and change how we think about things..."
1368: Malinda Lo Reads from 'Adaptation' at SF in SF on September 16, 2012
03 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I'll begin with the epigraph, which is from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species."
1367: A 2012 Interview with D. T. Max
01 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...for me there was a really funny, strange opportunity to write a biography about someone who listened to the same music as me."
1366: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 67: D. T. Max
29 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
1365: A 2012 Interview with Michael A. Lewis at the Capitola Book Cafe
29 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...maybe we could carry on what Abbey has said before us..."
1363: A 2012 Reading by Roz Kaveney from 'Rituals' at SF in SF, September 15, 2012
29 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Have you actually lived for thousands of years and retained that much capacity for trust?"
1364: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 66: Michael A. Lewis
28 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Environmeddlers
1362: A 2012 Interview with David Rich
24 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"You don't know what your parents have going on, and all of a sudden it affects your life."
1361: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 65: David Rich
22 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Caravan of Thieves
1360: A 2012 Phone Interview with D. T. Max
19 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...his mental life was full of so much drama."
1359: A 2012 Interview with Tad Williams
17 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Is this the true order?"
1358: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 64: Tad Williams
16 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Dirty Streets of Heaven
1357: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Live at Copperfield's Books, Santa Rosa, California, July 2012
13 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Why can't a book stay a book?"
1356: A 2012 Interview with Charles Yu
10 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...a rigorous definition of what sorry is..."
1355: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 63: Charles Yu
08 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry Please Thank You
1353: A 2004 Interview with Tom Perrotta
06 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...I knew the story was going to end with a woman waiting at a playground at night...."
1352: A 2012 Interview with Laura Lippman
03 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...there comes a time when I need to step back and not be thinking about the words so much..."
1351: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 62: Laura Lippman
02 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And When She Was Good
1350: A 2012 Interview with Karen Kondazian
01 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...once in a while it feels like you’re channeling..."
1349: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 61: Karen Kondazian
31 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Whip
1348: John Shirley Interviewed at SF in SF on July 7, 2012
31 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"In the novel it gets very, very dark and it's sort of Lord of the Flies for the 21st century."
1347: A 2012 Interview with Richard Kadrey
29 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I didn't start out with the intention of re-writing the history, like I said, of reality..."
1346: A 2012 Interview with Tim Powers
27 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...their poetic gift did seem to sort of, come from outside of themselves..."
1345: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 60: Tim Powers
25 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Hide Me Among the Graves
1344: SF in SF Panel from 07-07-12 with Terry Bisson, Richard Kadrey and John Shirley
22 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"..they did Jimmy Olsen that, didn't they?" - John Shirley
1343: A 2012 Interview with Brian Castner
20 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"My goal in writing the book was to write it as it felt."
1342: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 59: Brian Castner
19 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Long Walk
1341: Richard Kadrey Reads from 'Devil Said Bang' at SF in SF on July 7, 2012
18 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...it's the sort of restless, screwed-up dead..."
1340: A 2012 Interview with James P. Blaylock
12 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...I decided I wanted to write pieces that I might have written if I was thirty years old in 1875."
1339: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 58: James P. Blaylock
12 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Zeuglodon
1338: John Shirley Reads from 'Everything is Broken' at SF in SF on July 7, 2012
10 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"..A kind of a Lord of the Flies for the near-future..."
1337: Alan Cheuse Live at the Capitola Book Cafe, July 21, 2012
08 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...A novel is like a marriage..."
1336: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 57: Alan Cheuse
05 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Paradise, or Eat Your Face
1335: A 2012 Live Conversation with Carlos Ruiz Zafon
05 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...the way I do it is working in circles..."
1334: Three Books with Alan Cheuse
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Alix Olin Signs and Wonders, Charles Yu Sorry Please Thank You and Jonathan Carroll The Woman Who Married a Cloud
1333: A 2012 Interview with Deborah Harkness
30 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...he would not have been a nice guy..."
1332: Podcast Update: Time to Read Episode 56: Deborah Harkness
28 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Shadow of Night
1331: Rachel Swirsky Interviewed at SF in SF on June 16, 2012
26 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Short Stories
1330: Robert J. Sawyer Interviewed at SF in SF on June 16, 2012
26 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Novels