{"id":23985,"date":"2017-11-03T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23985"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:08:09","slug":"sink-your-teeth-into-samosa-with-karin-tidbeck-in-episode-51-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/03\/sink-your-teeth-into-samosa-with-karin-tidbeck-in-episode-51-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sink your teeth into samosa with Karin Tidbeck in Episode 51 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to head back to Helsinki for the fourth episode recorded during the 75th World Science Fiction Convention, following up on Johanna Sinisalo<\/a>, Chen Quifan<\/a>, and Xia Jia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This time around, you get to listen in on my lunch at Mero-Himal Nepalese Restaurant<\/a> with Karin Tidbeck during the penultimate day of the con. Tidbeck writes fiction in both Swedish and English, and debuted in 2010 with the Swedish short story collection Vem \u00e4r Arvid Pekon?<\/em> Her English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath<\/em>, was awarded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts William L. Crawford Fantasy Award in 2013 and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Her novel debut, Amatka<\/em>, was recently released in English. <\/p>\n

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We discussed the serious nature of Live Action Role-Playing games in Nordic countries, the way pretending to be a 150-year-old vampire changed her life, how discovering Neil Gaiman’s Sandman<\/em> comics made her forget time and space, the most important lesson she learned from the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Workshop, how she uses improvisational exercises to teach beginning writers, why Amatka<\/em> grew from a poetry collection into a novel, what made her say, “I’m not here to answer questions, I’m here to ask them,” and more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can share spring rolls with us—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 50 previous episodes are still available.<\/p>\n

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

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