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 chats with A.T. Greenblatt -- this year’s short story Nebula winner for "Give the Family My Love" -- about the pleasures of escape reading even in normal times, listening to romances, mysteries, and memoirs, the graphic novels of Marjorie Liu and Neil Gaiman, the Murderbot stories of Martha Wells, and serious walking as an inspiration for fiction. 

Books mentioned include:

Educated by Tara Westover

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman et al.