2024-05-04
58 分钟Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland, joins us to discuss her dystopian novel The Morningside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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HeLlo, and welcome to episode 567 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.
Im David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save me, please and other stories.
Publishers Weekly visceral settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much Kirtley is able to fit into a limited page count.
For SFF fans.
With no time to sink into a doorstopper, these concentrated doses of genre goodness will hit the spot.
And Kirkus, refused, writes curtly, employs sharp, concise prose that compliments his puckish sense of humor.
The author's passionate voice breathes life into this wonderful array of tales.
So again, the book is called Save me, please and other stories, and it's available now on Amazon.com.
and our guest today is Thea Abret.
Her debut novel, the Tiger's Wife, about an old man telling his granddaughter fantastical stories, became a New York Times bestseller, won the Orange Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Her follow up novel Inland, published in 2019, is a ghost story that explores the use of camels in the Wild west.
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Harpers, and she's taught creative writing at Hunter College, Texas State University, and Bennington College.
And in this interview, we'll be discussing her new novel, the Morningside, a near future tale about a pair of climate refugees who come to live in a mysterious apartment building.