{"id":27633,"date":"2021-05-21T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:33:22","slug":"nino-cipri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/21\/nino-cipri\/","title":{"rendered":"Nibble prosciutto bread with Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated writer Nino Cipri on Episode 145 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2021 Nebula Awards conference<\/a> begins two weeks from today — but as far as Eating the Fantastic is concerned, it begins right here, right now. That’s because if this year’s event had been held in meatspace rather than gone virtual, I’d have taken this episode’s guest out for a meal in a Los Angeles restaurant and chatted with them about who they are and how they came to be. Instead, we each baked one of their favorite go-to recipes so we could nibble prosciutto bread while pretending the weekend was already here.<\/p>\n

And now it’s time for you to do the same!<\/p>\n

Nino Cipri<\/a> is on both the Nebula and Hugo Awards ballots for their novella Finna<\/em>. Its sequel, Defekt<\/em>, was released last month. Their 2019 story collection Homesick<\/em> won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize, was a finalist for the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and was chosen as one of the top 10 books on the ALA\u2019s Over the Rainbow Reading List. Their fiction has been published in Tordotcom<\/em>, Fireside<\/em>, Nightmare<\/em>, Daily Science Fiction<\/em>, and other places. Their YA horror debut, Burned and Buried<\/em>, will be published by Holt Young Readers in 2022.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how they made peace with the heat death of the universe, the way their favorite endings also feel like beginnings, the false assumption things will always get better, how their award-nominated novella started out as a screenplay, their trouble with titles and fascination with trees, the many pleasures of ambiguity, how we almost lost them to mortuary science, why they’ve been called a verbal terrorist, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can take a seat at the table with us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted by some of the 144 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

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