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.

The multi-talented Elizabeth Hand joins Gary for a discussion of writing in different genres and the good fortune of having readers who follow you from one to the other, the pleasures of returning to Tolkien or to classic ghost stories, the delights of the TV series The Detectorists, and her upcoming noir crime novel, The Book of Lamps and Banners.

Books mentioned include:

The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand

"The Owl Count", in Conjunctions 74: Grendel’s Kin

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

"The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" by Stephen King