I recommend a listen to Episode 92 of The Coode Street Podcast (actually, I recommend a listen to the whole run of episodes!). They bring on Michael Dirda who talks about Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar RIce Burroughs and Gene Wolfe (and many other items).
http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/the-coode-street-podcast/
F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).