{"id":24232,"date":"2018-01-12T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=24232"},"modified":"2018-01-12T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:37:48","slug":"episode-57-sheila-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/12\/episode-57-sheila-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Share flash-fried cauliflower with Asimov’s<\/em> editor Sheila Williams in Episode 57 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I choose a restaurant, sometimes a restaurant chooses me, and sometimes one of my guests asks to record at one of their favorite hangouts. That’s what happened this episode when I met with editor Sheila Williams for dinner in Manhattan. She highly recommended the Italian restaurant Cibo e Vino<\/a> on Broadway and 89th Street, and based on our shared appetizer of flash-fried cauliflower with truffle B\u00e9chamel and brown butter … I’m inclined to agree.<\/p>\n

Sheila has worked for Isaac Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction Magazine<\/em> since 1982, became its editor in 2004, and went on to win the Hugo Award for Best Short Form Editor in 2011 and 2012. She also co-edited A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women<\/em> with Connie Willis, as well as numerous other anthologies.<\/p>\n

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We chatted about her first day on the job more than a third of a century ago, meeting Isaac Asimov at an early Star Trek<\/em> convention when she was only 16, which writer intimidated her the most when she first got into the business, what she learned from working with previous Asimov’s<\/em> editors Shawna McCarthy and Gardner Dozois, the most common problems she sees in the more than 7,000 stories that cross her desk each year, the identities of the only writers she’s never rejected, what goes through her mind in that moment she reads a manuscript and arrives at “yes,” and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can snag a seat at the tabe—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>, where you can also find all 56 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> to download the episode to any device you’d like.<\/p>\n

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