{"id":24961,"date":"2018-05-12T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2019-01-28T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:14:09","slug":"chow-down-on-chive-dumplings-with-mary-sangiovanni-in-episode-66-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/12\/chow-down-on-chive-dumplings-with-mary-sangiovanni-in-episode-66-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chow down on chive dumplings with Mary SanGiovanni in Episode 66 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you listen to the 24-hour Scares That Care<\/a> Telethon, hosted by Brian Keene and his cohorts from The Horror Show with Brian Keene<\/a> podcast, which ended at noon today after having raised $21,591 for that 501c3 charity devoted to helping those coping with childhood illness, burns and breast cancer? If not, don’t worry. Because though its content was for the most part livestreamed only, never to be seen or heard again, I’ve got some of it for you right here. <\/p>\n

Because once again, Eating the Fantastic invaded!<\/p>\n

During last year’s telethon, as captured in Episode 34<\/a>, I brought BBQ and chatted with that best-selling zombie author himself, while this year I picked up takeout from Viet Thai Cafe<\/a> for dinner with Mary SanGiovanni.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s the author of The Hollower<\/em> trilogy, the first volume of which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, plus the recent novels Chills<\/em> and Savage Woods<\/em>. Her collections include Under Cover of Night<\/em>, A Darkling Plain<\/em>, and Night Moves<\/em>. She\u2019s also the host of the Cosmic Shenanigans podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We discussed H. P. Lovecraft’s racism and sexuality (or lack thereof), how having grown up in New Jersey might have given her the toughness she needed to survive her early short story rejections, why she ended up writing horror instead of science fiction even though her father read her Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert when she was a kid, which novella she wrote that will never see the light of day, how watching The Exorcist III<\/em> changed her life, why she’s no longer afraid of vampires, the reason her motto if she founded a religious cult would be “doorways are meant to be opened,” the first writer she met who treated her like an equal, the identity of “the George Carlin of Horror,” and much, much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can help polish off some Pork Pad Thai with us—<\/p>\n

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1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>—which may inspire you to sample some of the 65 earlier episodes while you’re there.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> to download the episode to your chosen device.<\/p>\n

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