{"id":15186,"date":"2022-04-19T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:46:25","slug":"episode-482-john-crowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-482-john-crowley","title":{"rendered":"Episode 482 – John Crowley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 482:
\nJohn Crowley<\/a><\/p>\n

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“One thing age and experience bring you is an accumulation of ability to create minds at work. It’s the hardest thing to do in writing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Legendary author John Crowley<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate his new novel, Flint And Mirror<\/a> (Tor Books), as well as his just-before-the-pandemic collections, And Go Like This<\/a> and Reading Backwards<\/a>. We get into the career-long gestation of this novel, the role of Hugh O’Neill in the English-Irish wars, the alchemy of melding history and the fantastic, the impact of John’s mild cognitive impairment (MCI) diagnosis<\/a>, and why writing really is the ability to create minds at work. We also get into the decline of SFF conventions, the joy of returning to Borges’ essays, whether imaginative fiction writers feel inadequate in the face of the QAnon phenomenon, what he learned from reading Nabokov, the smaller pieces he’s been writing during the pandemic that may become “A Conway Miscellany”, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Flint and Mirror<\/a> (plus And Go Like This<\/a> and Reading Backwards<\/a>)!<\/p>\n

And go listen to our 2013<\/a> and 2017<\/a> conversations!<\/em><\/p>\n

“I really thought KA would be my last novel, but I guess I just forgot.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n