{"id":26188,"date":"2019-08-12T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:44:17","slug":"bite-into-a-burger-with-p-djeli-clark-in-episode-102-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/12\/bite-into-a-burger-with-p-djeli-clark-in-episode-102-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite into a burger with P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark in Episode 102 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Readercon<\/a>‘s a month in the past, but here at Eating the Fantastic, it’s only just beginning, because it’s time for the first of three episodes I recorded at a con I’ve been attending since 1987.<\/p>\n

P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark<\/a> won both the Nebula Award and the Locus Award for Best Short Story earlier this year for “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” — and is currently up for a Hugo Award not just for that, but for his novella \u201cThe Black God\u2019s Drums\u201d as well. His fiction has appeared online at Tor.com,\u00a0Lightspeed<\/em>, Fireside Fiction<\/em>, Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/em>, and elsewhere, and in print anthologies such as Hidden Youth<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Clockwork Cairo<\/em>. He is founding member of\u00a0FIYAH Literary Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We got together for dinner Friday of the con at Quincy\u2019s Fat Cat Restaurant<\/a>, which specializes in comfort food like nachos, wings, mac and cheese, and ribs, though they also serve higher end items like duck and ribeye steaks. But our tastes were not quite so upscale that night, so we stuck to chicken quesadillas and burgers. <\/p>\n

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We discussed his upcoming first novel (the sale of which was announced only days before we spoke), the background which gave birth to his award-winning story “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington,” the reason The Black God’s Drums<\/em> switched point-of-view character during his writing of it, what he learned about New Orleans due to an unfortunate encounter with the local police department, how he found success when he switched from writing multi-volume sagas to focusing on shorter forms, his complicated feelings about Ray Bradbury, how being a professional historian helps his writing, our favorite (and not so favorite) episodes of The Twilight Zone<\/em>, and much, much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on our conversation at Fat Cat —<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to download some of the 101 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen using the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or check it out via the embed below.<\/p>\n