{"id":22830,"date":"2017-01-06T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22830"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:47:20","slug":"get-ready-for-plov-with-james-morrow-in-episode-26-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/06\/get-ready-for-plov-with-james-morrow-in-episode-26-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for plov with James Morrow in Episode 26 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first Eating the Fantastic episode of 2017—which also happens to be the first episode recorded at an Uzbek restaurant. My guest and I snuck away from the Gaithersburg, Maryland convention Capclave<\/a> one night for dinner at Silk Road Choyhona<\/a>, where we feasted on plov, dimlama, and a variety of other delicacies.<\/p>\n

My guest this episode is James Morrow, whose novels and short stories have won him multiple Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, as well as the Prix Utopia for life achievement from the French Utopiales International Festival.<\/p>\n

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His most recent novel, Galapagos Regained<\/em>, was published by St. Martin\u2019s Press in 2015. His next will be The Asylum of Dr. Caligari<\/em>, coming June 2017 from Tachyon Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We discussed his first novel (written when he was only seven years old!), why he feels more connected to the fiction of Arthur C. Clarke than that of Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, his many paths not taken, including that of filmmaker, the ethical conundrum which occurred after Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. autographed a book “for Jim Morrow, who writes just like me,” how Charles Darwin “confiscated our passports,” and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on our conversation\u2014<\/p>\n

1) Head on over to the iTunes store<\/a> and subscribe, as well as find the previous 25 episodes.<\/p>\n

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

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