{"id":23490,"date":"2017-06-09T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23490"},"modified":"2017-06-09T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:31:10","slug":"episode-40-elizabeth-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/09\/episode-40-elizabeth-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Share a grilled snook to die for with Elizabeth Hand in Episode 40 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was investigating venues where I could record episodes of Eating the Fantastic during the recent Long Beach StokerCon, one dish stood out above all others—the whole grilled snook served by chef Sergio Pe\u00f1uela at his restaurant Cheko El Rey Del Sarandeado<\/a>. So that’s where I headed for dinner on Thursday during the con, in order to learn whether that dish lived up to its rep.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: It did.<\/em><\/p>\n

My guest that night was Elizabeth Hand, a brilliant writer who\u2019s won four World Fantasy Awards, two Nebula Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, and more other awards than I have space to mention. The latest novel in her Cass Neary series, Hard Light<\/em>, was released last year.<\/p>\n

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We discussed why she probably won’t take LSD on her deathbed, what made her a fan of Marvel rather than DC when she was a kid, her unusual fee for writing term papers back in college, the true meaning of Man’s Search for Meaning<\/em>, the unfortunate occupational hazard of book reviewing, who was the best science fiction writer of all time (and why), plus more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can hook a snook with us—<\/p>\n

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1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 39 previous episodes are still available.<\/p>\n

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

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