{"id":23314,"date":"2017-04-25T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23314"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:17:23","slug":"eat-one-of-george-r-r-martins-dragon-eggs-with-k-m-szpara-in-episode-35-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/25\/eat-one-of-george-r-r-martins-dragon-eggs-with-k-m-szpara-in-episode-35-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat one of George R. R. Martin’s dragon eggs with K. M. Szpara in Episode 35 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I could get to Baltimore’s Woodberry Kitchen<\/a> more often. This should help you understand why: Bill Addison,\u00a0Eater<\/a>\u2019s restaurant editor, has written<\/a> of Woodberry Kitchen that when it opened in 2007, \u201cit was the most forward-thinking Baltimore restaurant in years,\u201d and in 2016 he included it on his list<\/a> of 38 restaurants that shaped and defined American dining.<\/p>\n

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So I was glad to be able to return for a meal with K.M. Szpara, who has published short fiction in Lightspeed<\/em>, Shimmer<\/em>, Glittership<\/em>, and other magazines, and has recently completed his first novel. He edited the acclaimed anthology Transcendant: The Year\u2019s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction<\/em>, about which Kirkus wrote that it “challenges readers\u2019 expectations in ways that few have managed to do before.”<\/p>\n

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Listen in and learn about his formative years writing Hanson and Harry Potter fanfic, which darlings he had to kill to complete his first novel, why rewrites are like giving a floofy poodle a haircut, what he didn’t know about short stories when he began to write them, the many ways conventions are like big sleepovers, the reason he was able to eat one of George R. R. Martin’s dragon eggs, and more.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can join us at the table—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>, where you’ll also be able to browse through the 34 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Download the episode to whatever device you use to listen to podcasts via the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Or listen to the episode right here via this embed.<\/p>\n