{"id":26748,"date":"2020-04-10T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=26748"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:08:37","slug":"sheltering-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/10\/sheltering-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter in place for lunch with Scott Edelman in Episode 119 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been exactly one month since I joined Michael Dirda for lunch<\/a> to record an episode of Eating the Fantastic, and the way things are going in this age of social distancing, it will likely be many more months before I’ll be able to sit down at a restaurant with a guest to record another. The three episodes I’d planned to harvest for you during the final days of March all had to be cancelled. So what’s a podcast predicated on breaking bread to do when bread can no longer be broken?<\/p>\n

What it means for this episode is that it’s time for the interviewer to become the interviewee, as you join me for lunch in my kitchen while I continue to shelter in place. Last episode<\/a>, I asked listeners to send in questions for things which might not have been revealed about my life as a writer, editor, publisher, podcaster, and fan during the previous 118 episodes. I also reached out to my former guests to see if they’d like to turn the tables and ask questions instead of just answering them.<\/p>\n

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I ended up with 93 questions, which I knew was far more than I’d be able to answer in a single episode. But I printed them, folded them up, tossed them inside the head of a Roswell alien, and then pulled them out randomly one at a time and tried to answer as many as I could over the course of my meal. <\/p>\n

I managed to get through 33 of them, including questions from Lucy A. Snyder<\/a>, Maura McHugh<\/a>, T. E. D. Klein<\/a>, Brian Keene<\/a>, Ramsey Campbell<\/a>, Pat Cadigan<\/a>, Ellen Klages<\/a>, Matthew Kressel<\/a>, Norman Prentiss<\/a>, Lisa Tuttle<\/a>, Nalo Hopkinson<\/a>, Robert Reed<\/a>, K. M. Szpara<\/a>, Linda Addison<\/a>, Stephen Kozeniewski <\/a>, Amal El-Mohtar<\/a>, Lynne Hansen<\/a>, James Morrow<\/a>, Erik T. Johnson<\/a>, Steve Rasnic Tem<\/a>, A. M. Dellamonica<\/a>, Resa Nelson<\/a>, Sam J. Miller<\/a>, Fran Wilde<\/a>, Paul Di Filippo<\/a>, Cecilia Tan<\/a>, Kaaron Warren<\/a>, and Jeffrey Ford<\/a>. (Whew!)<\/p>\n

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Over the course of my meal, I shared about my love for The Twilight Zone<\/em> (and the negative effect it had on me as a beginning writer), the origins of the Scarecrow character I created for Marvel in 1975, what it was like editing a professional wrestling magazine, whether the difficulties I faced in getting my Lambda Award-nominated novel The Gift<\/em> published during the \u201880s still hold true today, the embarrassing things I wishes I hadn\u2019t done as editor and publisher of Last Wave<\/em> magazine, how it felt seeing one of my comic book creations on the big screen in Captain Marvel<\/em>, my opinion on the James Tiptree Jr. Award controversy, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on my socially distant lunch — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> \u2014 where I hope you’ll be tempted to download a few of the 118 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