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.

Gary is joined by science fiction's dean of baseball stories Rick Wilber, whose most recent collection is Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination, to discuss the virtues of Kim Stanley Robinson, the appeal of Korean baseball or the minor leagues, and why baseball has such a strong appeal for mainstream literary novelists and writers from the United States.

Books mentioned include:

Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination by Rick Wilber

Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Resisters by Gish Jen

Enemy Rising: The Cursed Chronicles by C.J. Fisher

The Night Soldiers novels by Alan Furst