COVID Check-In with Ilana Myer

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COVID Check-In: Ilana Myer

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“Everything is terrible, but there’s so little most of us can do. I feel like fiction, reading and writing, is important right now.”

Fantasy author Ilana Myer checks in from eastern PA. We talk about cancelled travel plans, the virtual tour for her new book, The Poet King, what she learned in the course of finishing her Harp and Ring trilogy, the difference between reading about the pandemic and living it, making the plunge into Wodehouse (and avoiding dystopian fiction), and more. Give it a listen! And go read The Poet King (after you read the first two novels in the trilogy, Last Song Before Night and Fire Dance)!

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About our Guest

Ilana C. Myer has worked as a journalist in Jerusalem and a cultural critic for various publications. As Ilana Teitelbaum she has written book reviews and critical essays for The Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and the Huffington Post. Last Song Before Night was her first novel, followed by Fire Dance, and now The Poet King. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Credits: The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Cloudlifter CL-1 and a Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photos of Ilana by others, but I may post them on my instagram.