{"id":35662,"date":"2024-09-15T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35662"},"modified":"2024-09-15T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:57:17","slug":"sarah-pinsker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/15\/sarah-pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for two scoops of Sarah Pinsker on Episode 236 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to an entirely unexpected episode of Eating the Fantastic. Why, one could almost call it an historic<\/em> episode! In fact, I won\u2019t almost<\/em> call it historic — I will<\/em> call it historic. Because it\u2019s the only episode since this podcast began during which you\u2019ll hear me chat with a creator while we eat a flavor of ice cream inspired by their latest book — in this case, Sarah Pinsker<\/a>\u2019s Haunt Sweet Home<\/em> — created by the Baltimore ice cream experts at The Charmery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sarah\u2019s no stranger to longtime listeners of the show. She was my first guest way back on Episode 1<\/a> in February 2016, my first virtual pandemic guest, during which we recorded while we each ate similar takeout in our own homes in April 2020 on Episode 120<\/a> \u2014 that was when we discussed her unintentionally prescient debut novel A Song for a New Day<\/em> \u2014 and a guest once again on Episode 151<\/a> in August 2021, when she was joined by Karen Osborne<\/a> and K. M. Szpara<\/a>, since they’d all recently published second novels.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Sarah\u2019s bio from the back flap of Haunt Sweet Home<\/em> \u2014 <\/p>\n

Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author of A Song For A New Day<\/em>, We Are Satellites<\/em>, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea<\/em>, Lost Places<\/em>, and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s<\/em>, Strange Horizons<\/em>, Fantasy & Science Fiction<\/em>, and Uncanny<\/em>, and in numerous anthologies and year\u2019s bests. She is also a singer\/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and two weird dogs.<\/p>\n

The flavor launched on Friday the 13th, and we met at The Charmery yesterday for a taste of that book-inspired ice cream, where we discussed the sculpture she saw at the American Visionary Art Museum which planted a seed for Haunt Sweet Home<\/em>, the origin of the ice cream collaboration, how she knew her idea was meant to be a novella and not a novel, why she prefers writing books without a contract, how multiple ideas coalesced into one, the narrative purpose of telling a story via multiple formats, how to know a character who doesn’t know themselves, why you can’t tell from the end product whether a piece of fiction was plotted or pantsed, Kelly Robson’s theory about the Han Solo\/Luke Skywalker dichotomy and what it means for creating interesting characters, why she’s a fan of making promises in the early paragraphs of her stories, whether our families understand what we’re writing about when we write about families, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for ice cream at The Charmery<\/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 235 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