{"id":36924,"date":"2025-03-14T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=36924"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:32:30","slug":"david-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/14\/david-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangia mussels in Baltimore’s Little Italy with David Simmons in Episode 249 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for lunch in Baltimore’s Little Italy with David Simmons, author of the horror diptych\u00a0Ghosts of East Baltimore<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ghosts of West Baltimore<\/em>. His short fiction can be found in Brave New Weird Volume Two<\/em>, Kaleidotrope<\/em>, and This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories About Bugs<\/em>. His novel Eradicator<\/em> will be released later this year.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how he manages to give such dramatic performances during his public readings, why his answer when asked to describe his genre of writing is “Baltimore,” the way discovering the novels of Donald Goines changed his life, why his wife was responsible for his first short story being written and sold, how he hopes reading him will have you feeling as if you’re in a frenetic car chase, why for him the villains always come first, the extensive research he needed to write Baltimore right, why his rapping career is a thing of the past, the reason a story’s opening line is so important, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for lunch at Sabatino’s <\/a> in Baltimore, Maryland — <\/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 248 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