{"id":36996,"date":"2025-03-28T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=36996"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:55:45","slug":"tim-paggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/28\/tim-paggi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip into roti with writer Tim Paggi in Episode 250 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

My guest for the 250th episode of Eating the Fantastic is playwright, poet, and fiction writer Tim Paggi<\/a>, whom I met at December’s Charm City Spec event where he read an excerpt from his recently published novella How to Kill Friends and Eviscerate People<\/em>. His poetry chapbook “Workforced” won the 2015 Plork “Play\/Work” Award for Creative Writing and Publication Arts. His next book, The Other Side of the Hallway<\/em>, will be released later this year. He holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore. Additionally, for the past 15 years, he’s been giving ghost tours around the neighborhoods of Fells Point and Mt. Vernon.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the story behind his X-Files<\/em>-inspired juvenilia, the reason he demanded a refund from Barnes & Noble for a volume of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, why a writing teacher (wrongfully) accused him of plagiarism, how the beginning of the pandemic was also the beginning of his fiction writing career, whether his recent Cthulhu references were intentional or unavoidable, why the Severance<\/em> TV show has him feeling anxious (it’s probably not the reason you think), the C-word he avoids using in his fiction, whether facing down audiences on stage helped him deal with rejections on the page, the many reasons he loves cosmic horror, the drunkest group he ever led through Baltimore on a ghost tour, and much more.
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Here\u2019s how you can join us for lunch at The Mint Room <\/a> in Ellicott, 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 249 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