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Episode 394: Ten Minutes with Sofia Samatar
Episode 394: Ten Minutes with Sofia Samatar
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Apr 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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 Gary chats with World Fantasy Award-winning Sofia Samatar about the great German writer W.G. Sebald, returning to formative books in times of stress, the literary prehistory of robots as explored in her wonderful story "Fairy Tales for Robots", and her upcoming story "The New Book of the Dead" in Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories.
Books mentioned include:
Tender by Sofia Samatar
The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and Vertigo by W.G. Sebald,
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Silver Road: Maps, Essays and Calligraphies by Ali Kazim
Today Gary chats with World Fantasy Award-winning Sofia Samatar about the great German writer W.G. Sebald, returning to formative books in times of stress, the literary prehistory of robots as explored in her wonderful story "Fairy Tales for Robots", and her upcoming story "The New Book of the Dead" in Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories.
Books mentioned include:
Tender by Sofia Samatar
The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and Vertigo by W.G. Sebald,
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Silver Road: Maps, Essays and Calligraphies by Ali Kazim
Released:
Apr 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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