{"id":35338,"date":"2024-07-03T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35338"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:46:53","slug":"sally-wiener-grotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/03\/sally-wiener-grotta\/","title":{"rendered":"Gab over garlic bread with Sally Wiener Grotta in Episode 229 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out in the real world, Balticon<\/a> is around six weeks in the rearview mirror, but here at Eating the Fantastic, it’s not yet time to check out of the hotel and head for home. You’ve had a chance to take a seat at the table with Alex Jennings<\/a> and Elwin Cotman<\/a> from that Baltimore event, but we still have one more meal to go — because now it’s time for an Italian lunch with Sally Wiener Grotta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Grotta\u2019s latest two books are\u00a0Of Being Woman<\/em>,\u00a0a collection of feminist science fiction stories, and\u00a0Daughters of Eve<\/em>,\u00a0a discussion workbook which uses tales of biblical matriarchs to explore the modern world. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as the\u00a0North Atlantic Review<\/em>,\u00a0DreamForge<\/em>,\u00a0Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles<\/em>, and others. <\/p>\n

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Her previous books include Digital Imaging for Visual Artists<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored with\u00a0Daniel Grotta), and the novels\u00a0Jo Joe<\/em>, which was a Jewish Book Council Network book, and\u00a0The Winter Boy<\/em>, which was a\u00a0Locus Magazine\u00a0Recommended Read. Sally is also co-curator of the Galactic Philadelphia Salon reading series. Plus she’s also an award-winning journalist and\u00a0photographer who has traveled on assignment to all seven continents.<\/p>\n

We discussed when we first met (and can’t quite figure out whether it was a third or a quarter of a century ago), how her first storytelling impulse began because she’d fall asleep while being read stories as a child, the importance of the question “what if?,” why she often finds horror difficult to read, the early experience which allowed her to have such a good relationship with editors, the story she wrote in Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing workshop which caused that Grand Master to say “what a darling monster,” when we should submit to editorial suggestions and when we should run screaming, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us at Sabatino’s Italian restaurant<\/a> — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 228 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n