{"id":12894,"date":"2020-02-15T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2020-02-15T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:06:01","slug":"episode-362-richard-kadrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-362-richard-kadrey","title":{"rendered":"Episode 362 – Richard Kadrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 362:
\nRichard Kadrey<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI try to tell young writers, \u2018Do not fetishize your world-building.\u2019 I\u2019ve seen writers think they have to be Tolkien, they have to invent Elvish, before they can start the first page of their book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With his new novel, The Grand Dark<\/a>\"\" (Harper Voyager), Richard Kadrey<\/a> takes an artistic leap from his renowned Sandman Slim<\/a> supernatural noir books. We sit down in a murder hotel to talk about mixing robots and genetic engineering with Weimar Germany, getting inspired by Mel Gordon\u2019s Voluptuous Panic<\/a>, David Bowie\u2019s Low<\/a>, and the Brothers Quay\u2019s Street of Crocodiles<\/a>, the impact of the 2016 election on his writing, and how he’s getting ready to end the Sandman Slim<\/em> series. We also get into the gentrification of the east Village and the Bowery, the thin line between preservation and nostalgia, the moment his brain got warped by Marcel Duchamp\u2019s Nude Descending a Staircase, our shared love of What We Do In The Shadows<\/a>, the time he attended a screening of Cronenberg\u2019s Crash<\/a> with Kathy Acker, his LitReactor course on writing dark urban fantasy<\/a>, the wonder of being edited by Ellen Datlow<\/a>, the accretionary model of novel-writing, and why it’s okay to build your fantastic world by just looking out the window. (Check out our 2018 conversation<\/a>!)<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy The Grand Dark<\/a>\"\" (& maybe pre-order the penultimate Sandman Slim<\/em> novel, Ballistic Kiss<\/a>\"\")!<\/p>\n

\u201cI love hidden and forgotten history, like the time San Francisco got hit with the Black Plague.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n