It started as a short story in grad school, but Gabriel Urza kept coming back to what would eventually be his novella THE WHITE DEATH: AN ILLUSION. He talks to James about feeling like a child in the face of magic, having trouble extricating past from present, portraying the ambiguity of the supernatural, working through your problems when writing, and reading that’s like eating a bag of chips. Plus, Tyler Glauz-Todrank from Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, VT on fall releases.
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Buy THE WHITE DEATH: AN ILLUSION
Gabriel and James discuss:
Charles Dickens
ANGELS & DEMONS by Dan Brown
Kurt Vonnegut
The Ohio State University
“Fantasy for Eleven Fingers” by Ben Fountain
the Magic Castle
“Eisenheim the Illusionist” by Steven Millhauser
Jeff Mcbride
Mt. Hood
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Annie Hartnett
Hannah Tinti
Loch Ness
Claire Vaye Watkins
THE THIRD HOTEL by Laura van den Berg
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
Deena Drewis
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Tyler Glauz-Todrank
Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT
Tyler and James discuss:
BUNNY by Mona Awad: Buy BUNNY
Bear Pond Books
Rivendell
James Baldwin
WHO KILLED MY FATHER by Edouard Louis trans. by Lorin Stein
New Directions Press
LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson trans. by Molly Ringwald
LOT: STORIES by Bryan Washington
THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS by Abi Andrews
Two Dollar Radio
HARD MOUTH by Amanda Goldblatt
GRAND UNION: STORIES by Zadie Smith
IN THE DREAMHOUSE: A MEMOIR by Carmen Maria Machado
Graywolf Press
RED AT THE BONE by Jacqueline Woodson
NOTHING TO SEE HERE by Kevin Wilson
TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Kevin Wilson
THE FAMILY FANG by Kevin Wilson
AN AMERICAN SUNRISE by Joy Harjo
Ben Lerner
ON SWIFT HORSES by Shannon Pufahl
OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT by Petina Gappah
Scribner
EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS by Jake Skeets
Richard Avedon
Milkweed Editions
HUNGER MOUNTAIN
HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES by Saeed Jones
Simon & Schuster
Maggie Nelson
EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING by Terry Tempest Williams
MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN: ESSAYS by Leslie Jamison