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Episode 229: Sally Wiener Grotta
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Episode 229: Sally Wiener Grotta

Eating the Fantastic

July 2, 20241h 47m

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Show Notes

Gab over garlic bread with Sally Wiener Grotta as we discuss when we first met (and can't quite figure out whether it was a third or a quarter of a century ago), how her first storytelling impulse began because she'd fall asleep while being read stories as a child, the importance of the question "what if?," why she often finds horror difficult to read, the early experience which allowed her to have such a good relationship with editors, the story she wrote in Ursula K. Le Guin's writing workshop which caused the Grand Master to say "what a darling monster," when we should submit to editorial suggestions and when we should run screaming, and much more.