{"id":23405,"date":"2017-05-17T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23405"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:15:09","slug":"grab-lunch-at-the-watergate-with-my-unindicted-co-conspirator-cynthia-felice-in-episode-37-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/17\/grab-lunch-at-the-watergate-with-my-unindicted-co-conspirator-cynthia-felice-in-episode-37-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab lunch at the Watergate with my unindicted co-conspirator Cynthia Felice in Episode 37 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited the Watergate Hotel recently, and in case those of you familiar with the history of that infamous location might be thinking I went there to bring down a president with a Bob Woodward\/Carl Bernstein-style investigation, let me quickly add … no. Rather, I went there to investigate the food at the recently opened Kingbird<\/a> restaurant, with a guest who surprised me with her sudden visit to Washington, D.C., and whom I somehow managed to convince that a meal with me would be oh, so much more fun than visiting the National Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n

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Joining me within the walls of the Watergate Hotel was Cynthia Felice, who published her first short story, \u201cLongshanks,\u201d in 1976 in the pages of Galileo<\/em>, a science fiction magazine published by the late, great Charlie Ryan, and her first novel, Godsfire<\/em>, two years later. She is also the co-founder with Ed Bryant—about whom, alas, I must also say late and great—of the Colorado Springs Writer\u2019s Workshop.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how Frank Herbert’s Dune<\/em> made her say, “Hey, I can do that,” the virtues of owning a motel while being a writer, the marriage advice Kate Wilhelm gave her at Clarion, what Thomas M. Disch told her that fixed one of her short stories, why we all loved the late, great Ed Bryant, the extraordinary lengths David Hartwell went to as he edited her second novel, how her collaborations with Connie Willis began, and more.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can break into the Watergate with us—<\/p>\n

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1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 36 previous episodes are also available.<\/p>\n

2) Download the episode to the device of your choice by using the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Or just go ahead listen via the embed below.<\/p>\n