{"id":8907,"date":"2015-07-20T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:33:58","slug":"episode-126-people-from-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-126-people-from-away","title":{"rendered":"Episode 126 – People From Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #126:
\nLiz Hand – People From Away<\/a><\/p>\n

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“When I was young, I always wanted to be a writer, but I thought that one could write science fiction and\u00a0then also write ‘serious’ literature . . . that I could be Samuel R. Delany, but I could also be F. Scott Fitzgerald. That I could be Dorothy Parker, and I could be Angela Carter. But I found that you tend to get pigeonholed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"wylding\"<\/a>Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand<\/a> joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about her new novel, Wylding Hall<\/a>\"\"! We also talk about her need to try different genres, that pigeonholing process, how abandoning the supernatural for her Cass Neary novels was like working without a net, how her success at writing may be attributable to the Helsinki Bus Syndrome, what it was like to be at the punk scene in the mid-’70s, how she learned to strip down her prose for\u00a0her recent (and excellent) noir crime novels, just how she ended up in coastal Maine, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“In the ’70s, I really wanted to be a photographer. I wanted to be a lot of things that I wasn’t. I wanted to be Lester Bangs. I wanted to be Patti Smith. I wanted to be all these things, but I had no talent for any of them. I was in the position of being the fan, the participant observer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The conversation also covers the changing models and markets of genre writing, the importance of fan interaction, why she loves coming to Readercon (where we recorded this episode), why it ultimately paid off to opt in favor of experience over college classes, and why her protagonist Cass Neary is like her “if my brake lines had been cut when I was 20 years old and I’d never been able to come back.”
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We talk about a lot<\/em> of books in this episode. Here’s a list of ’em:<\/p>\n