Cooking the Books: Recent Episodes
Fran Wilde
Cooking the Books is an ongoing interview project that explores the meeting points between genre fiction and food. In addition to podcast episodes, there are numerous text-based interviews with authors, agents, and editors.
When Arkady Martine sets out to do a thing, she does it completely and thoroughly. That’s true whether she’s running an academic conference on Byzantium or creating an entirely new universe and an exquisitely intricate space opera to go in it. A Memory Called Empire is just such a narrative within such a universe, and […]
Alexander London‘s first young adult novel, Proxy, blew me away. His middle grade books are wonderful. And now the newest addition to the London library, Black Wings Beating hits the Cooking the Books crew right in the feels with its giant murderbirds and amazing world building! (PS: what made this interview especially exciting was the gargantuan […]
Author Lauren Teffeau’s Implanted debuted just before worldcon in San Jose, and she’s been journeying far and wide to talk about her high-tech science fiction novel. (confession: Lauren keeps me and my hatch green chiles habit happy, plus I blurbed Implanted, so I’m a little biased about this book and this author. Both are fantastic.) My co-host […]
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng arose earlier this year from Angry Robot Press and my Cooking the Books co-host Aliette de Bodard and I have been working to catch the author ever since. We’re so glad to have found a time to do so — the conversation took place over three continents, in between several […]
What Mary Robinette Kowal brings to the Cooking the Books table is no fewer than seven novels, two short story collections, more than 70 short stories, a blog that boosts other writers with My Favorite Bit, advocacy and volunteering, the Writing Excuses Podcast AND Cruise, the Futurescapes Writing Workshop, and a somewhat unfortunate attachment to […]
Chelsea Polk‘s glorious debut novel, Witchmark, from Tor.com Publishing and Tor Books is almost here. Still time to preorder! In Witchmark, an alternate post-War world has magic and sibling rivalries, a beautiful romance, and so many bicycles. It’s also filled with food — apples in particular, but other foods as well. So when Chelsea Polk […]
I’ve walked so many of the paths in The Girl And the Grove (Flux Books, May 2018) from Fairmount Park to Kelly Drive and now I’m slightly disappointed I’ve yet to see either an owl or a dryad. That’s because this YA novel is filled with the people and places of my hometown. So I […]
John Scalzi: Man of international mystery, burritos, and pie? OR fleet-footed author of over thirty books on writing, spaaaaace, and the future? Either guess is correct. What do you win? You win the latest episode of Cooking the Books, an interview with John Scalzi — where co-host Aliette de Bodard and I talk with him about writing […]
Brooke Bolander first captured our attention with the gorgeous short story “Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring” (2012, Lightspeed) and she hasn’t let it go since. Now with vivid stories like And You Shall Know Her By Her Trail of Dead, Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, and Sundogs (to name a few) under her belt, […]
Carmen Maria Machado‘s short stories and essays grab the heart and the ear, the eye and the brain. They seam and sing. They steam. Her first short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Greywolf Press 2017) is out this week, already making All the Lists, and Aliette and I feel so lucky to have Carmen […]