Pocket Interview No. 8 - Alyssa Wong
/In which we talk with award-winning author, Alyssa Wong, about among other things: sex, guilt, fear, bible monsters, growing up in the desert, and the many tiers of horror. Also, trash pigs.
Read MoreStoryological is a podcast about stories. In particular, short stories. In particular, any sort of short story that amazes us. Sometimes we talk about stories in Clarkesworld. Sometimes in Granta. Sometimes we talk about comics. Very occasionally we talk about films. Every episode, writers E.G Cosh and Chris Kammerud discuss how stories work and why they matter and what it is about these particular stories that we love more than anything.
In which we talk with award-winning author, Alyssa Wong, about among other things: sex, guilt, fear, bible monsters, growing up in the desert, and the many tiers of horror. Also, trash pigs.
Read MoreIn which we chat with Sofia Samatar about, among other things, jazz, identity, belonging, feeling lost in life and in stories, and how we might use language to build, and remember, home.
Read MoreIn which we chat with writer Violet Allen about, among other things, intertextuality, metafiction, the one power all superheroes share, and the hope and purpose of art. Also, Flash Gordon and the theme song to the television show Frasier.
Read MoreIn which we chat with writer Carmen Maria Machado about, among other things, sex, gender, television, the revelation of Kate Winslet's body, and the danger and power of imagining that there are, and have always been, other ways of being.
Read MoreIn which we chat with writer Amal El-Mohtar about, among other things, moons, musicals, orchards, friendship, Star Trek: The Next Generation, the wonderful wobbliness of time and space, and the little bits of magic you find as you travel along the way, there and back again.
Read MoreSam J. Miller lives in New York City. His debut novel, The Art of Starving, has been described by Book Riot as "funny, haunting, relentless and...a classic in the making" and by Kirkus as a "dark and lovely tale of supernatural vengeance and self-destruction."
Read MoreIn which we chat with writer, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, in the first of our Storyological Pocket Interviews.
Read MoreStoryological is a podcast in love with stories. Every episode, writers E.G. Cosh and Chris Kammerud choose a pair of short stories and discuss something of how they work and why they matter and what they might teach us about life, the universe, and everything.
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