{"id":22752,"date":"2016-12-09T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22752"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:46:00","slug":"share-a-philly-cheese-steak-less-with-sam-j-miller-in-episode-24-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/09\/share-a-philly-cheese-steak-less-with-sam-j-miller-in-episode-24-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Share a Philly cheese “steak less” with Sam J. Miller in Episode 24 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still have the meat sweats thanks to my recent run of episodes centered around Kansas City BBQ? Then you’ll probably welcome a break for Eating the Fantastic’s first vegetarian episode, recorded at Baltimore’s One World Cafe<\/a> during the Baltimore Book Festival.<\/p>\n

My guest who stole away from the Inner Harbor to join me this episode is Sam J. Miller, a writer who\u2019s been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, and who won the Shirley Jackson Award for his short story\u00a0\u201c57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides<\/a>.\u201d And who last shared a meal with me during the 2015 Nebula Awards weekend at Alinea<\/a>, considered to be one of the Top 10 restaurants in the world. His debut novel, The Art of Starving<\/em>, will appear from HarperCollins in 2017.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the value of community within the science fiction field, the transformative piece of advice he received from Ted Chiang while attending the Clarion Writers Workshop, how one deals with reviews that are more politically than artistically motivated, the way 9\/11 changed horror movies, the importance of the life and works of the great Thomas M. Disch, and more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on our conversation—<\/p>\n

1) Click through to the iTunes store<\/a> and subscribe—where you can also find the previous 23 episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Download episodes onto whatever device you’d like by using the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply listen via the embed below.<\/p>\n