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Title: On genre fiction: Interview with Michael Chabon
Post by: bolddeceiver on April 19, 2008, 04:40:11 AM

Part of me wants to cross-post this to fantasy and horror discussion.  Great defense of genre fiction at about fifteen minutes into this (http://www.wpr.org/book/080413b.html) episode of Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge.  Sorry it's real audio, but it's worth listening to.

Title: Re: On genre fiction: Interview with Michael Chabon
Post by: DKT on April 21, 2008, 04:36:06 PM

Michael Chabon makes me very happy.  He edited some very good genre anthologies for McSweeney's.  He came down to a Southern California teaching conference once after Summerland had come out, and I was the only one in line to get signatures.   :o  He was very cool, though, and talked to me about the X-Files episode with the golem and encouraged me to check out the original Nightstalker series.  (Hrm.  Still have to look that up.) 

I'm looking forward to giving this a listen :)