A speculative book club, where critics, writers, and scholars join us to talk about thorny, interesting titles. A podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
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A Meal of Thorns
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Weekend crowd, in case you missed it:
It's not entirely a surprise to me that the Critical Friends episode about established writers has attracted less discourse than the one about debut writers, but it's probably a topic I worry about more.
A week out from recording our next episode: on rereading #Tolkien — and we’d like to hear your thoughts and experiences! Email us at [email protected] or post a reply to this post if you’d like. Here’s a thread from today on doing a reread if you’d like a handy example.
NEW EPISODE
We talked about every AI chatbot creating a fictional guy named Elias Thorne, "modernizing" old children's lit, and more
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Such a strange and compelling fever dream of a novella. Saving for later!
some weeks it blows my mind a little that we're up to post 8/episode 9 and there are still more than 100 posts and readers to go
Join us as we read the Clarke Award shortlist! Alison and Liz judge John’s own judging, and then they ask him questions about his judging and judge his answers. We hope you judge that this is a good episode. The word “judge” looks weird now.
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A Meal of Thorns
I’m years behind on the @strangehorizons.bsky.social critical friends podcast (just about to listen to episode 6 of the first season… published in 2023). It was heartbreaking but also wonderful to hear Maureen’s voice in those opening episodes. The first @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social episode is great
Niall Harrison
By-the-Bywater
PRINT RUN
Indrapramit Das
Molly Templeton
Octothorpe
🎧 NEW PODCAST TO PUT IN YOUR EARS. 🎧
In this month’s Critical Friends, @kateem.bsky.social and Duncan Lawie talk about reading writers with back catalogues: how to start, how to you think about them, what to do when they publish another new book?
On oeuvres (with apologies to the French language):
🎧 NEW PODCAST TO PUT IN YOUR EARS. 🎧
In this month’s Critical Friends, @kateem.bsky.social and Duncan Lawie talk about reading writers with back catalogues: how to start, how to you think about them, what to do when they publish another new book?
On oeuvres (with apologies to the French language):
Ian Mond
Kate Macdonald and Duncan Lawie join Dan Hartland to tackle the question of the back catalog.
This week we catch up on two pieces that caught our eye: one on the modernization of older children’s literature to match contemporary culture, and another on how every LLM chatbot keeps telling stori
