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Sorry kids, Veronica decided to go on vacation, and all you get is this lousy interview with legendary author Gene Wolfe. Just kidding, the interview is awesome." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe/134SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe.mp3\n(47M; 34:28)\n\nInterview starts 02:04, ends 33:37.\n\nTopics:\n\n- 'science fiction' vs 'fantasy' and 'science fantasy';\n- \"Beach Hill\";\n- on another Latro book ('I don't know if I will ever write another\nLatro book; I may. Those take a lot of research.');\n- ancient Egyptian society, the Persian empire;\n- at ~12m, Borges (Wolfe 'went through a period in which I read all\nthe Borges I could find and I also went to a lecture of his. I never\nactually got to meet him but I did see him in the flesh. I was sitting\nin the audience and [inaudible] he was just the most marvelous man...2\nyoung people from the Spanish department, and they say 'we are from\nthe Spanish department [University] and we're here to interpret to\ninterpret for Signor Borges as necessary, and he begins to speak and\nhe has English down absolutely pat - he has a Spanish accent, yes, but\nhe has a bigger vocabulary than 90% of the audience and I never heard\nhim make a grammatical mistake...He was great.'), Wolfe mentions 'The\nGarden of Forking Paths';\n- Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ & _The Man Who Was Thursday_;\n- Charles Dickens, where Wolfe brings up a personal story about\nreading _Pickwick Papers_ at 14, a friend starting to talk like Mr.\nJingles, who went on to become an Air Force psychologist, met a\n'tragic' end, Wolfe misses him, and he brought the friend back in a\nstory whose name he couldn't recall;\n- the Pringle machines and the clever way the Pringle shape assists\nmanufacture; Wolfe claims that when the fresh Pringles come out of the\nsalter, they are 'unspeakably delicious';\n- screenrights (_Shadow of the Torturer_ options sold '2 or 3 times');\n- on the upcoming _Shadows of the New Sun_ story anthology ('some of\nmy characters as handled by other people, but not as handled by me');\nto help with money issues related to Rose being in the nursing home\n(arthritis, Alzheimer's) and difficulties in reimbursement (at ~30m)\n- _The Land Across_; \"it's about a young American to travels to an\nobscure liberal eastern European country who gets into all sorts of\ntrouble; and as I told someone, there are two attractive young women\nand there's an attractive old woman; there's a crazy cult; there's a\ntruly evil cult; and much other stuff stuff - boats and so on, and\nwhen I got through giving the whole description I thought 'my god I\nforgot dogs and motorcycles! No dogs and motorcycles.' He goes to\nprison and he ends up as a member of the secret police of this little\neast European dictatorship and - and I had a lot of fun\"" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "<1372267007.81684.YahooMailNeo@web84506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "DAVID STOCKHOFF", "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net" }, "date": "2013-06-26T17:16:47+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like death without a funeral. I'm glad he's still having fun with writing." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "________________________________\nFrom: Gwern Branwen \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:11 PM\nSubject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview\n\n\nhttp://www.tommerritt.com/2013/06/25/sl-podcast-134-interview-with-gene-wolfe/\n\"S&L Podcast ? #134 — Interview with Gene Wolfe\"; from the Nebula\nAwards" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Were you expecting a wrap-up episode for Among Others? Sorry kids, Veronica decided to go on vacation, and all you get is this lousy interview with legendary author Gene Wolfe. Just kidding, the interview is awesome." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe/134SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe.mp3\n(47M; 34:28)\n\nInterview starts 02:04, ends 33:37.\n\nTopics:\n\n- 'science fiction' vs 'fantasy' and 'science fantasy';\n- \"Beach Hill\";\n- on another Latro book ('I don't know if I will ever write another\nLatro book; I may. Those take a lot of research.');\n- ancient Egyptian society, the Persian empire;\n- at ~12m, Borges (Wolfe 'went through a period in which I read all\nthe Borges I could find and I also went to a lecture of his. I never\nactually got to meet him but I did see him in the flesh. I was sitting\nin the audience and [inaudible] he was just the most marvelous man...2\nyoung people from the Spanish department, and they say 'we are from\nthe Spanish department [University] and we're here to interpret to\ninterpret for Signor Borges as necessary, and he begins to speak and\nhe has English down absolutely pat - he has a Spanish accent, yes, but\nhe has a bigger vocabulary than 90% of the audience and I never heard\nhim make a grammatical mistake...He was great.'), Wolfe mentions 'The\nGarden of Forking Paths';\n- Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ & _The Man Who Was Thursday_;\n- Charles Dickens, where Wolfe brings up a personal story about\nreading _Pickwick Papers_ at 14, a friend starting to talk like Mr.\nJingles, who went on to become an Air Force psychologist, met a\n'tragic' end, Wolfe misses him, and he brought the friend back in a\nstory whose name he couldn't recall;\n- the Pringle machines and the clever way the Pringle shape assists\nmanufacture; Wolfe claims that when the fresh Pringles come out of the\nsalter, they are 'unspeakably delicious';\n- screenrights (_Shadow of the Torturer_ options sold '2 or 3 times');\n- on the upcoming _Shadows of the New Sun_ story anthology ('some of\nmy characters as handled by other people, but not as handled by me');\nto help with money issues related to Rose being in the nursing home\n(arthritis, Alzheimer's) and difficulties in reimbursement (at ~30m)\n- _The Land Across_; \"it's about a young American to travels to an\nobscure liberal eastern European country who gets into all sorts of\ntrouble; and as I told someone, there are two attractive young women\nand there's an attractive old woman; there's a crazy cult; there's a\ntruly evil cult; and much other stuff stuff - boats and so on, and\nwhen I got through giving the whole description I thought 'my god I\nforgot dogs and motorcycles! No dogs and motorcycles.' He goes to\nprison and he ends up as a member of the secret police of this little\neast European dictatorship and - and I had a lot of fun\"\n\n-- \ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gwern Branwen", "address": "gwern at gwern.net" }, "date": "2013-06-26T17:24:07+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview", "in_reply_to": "<1372267007.81684.YahooMailNeo@web84506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:\nRose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like\ndeath without a funeral." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not\n*sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel\nfree to listen to that section, it's not long." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "<26610E3A-342A-4145-B2D1-BC32453EC237@yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Marc Aramini", "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2013-06-26T17:41:18+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad. \n\nSent from my iPhone" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like\ndeath without a funeral." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not\n*sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel\nfree to listen to that section, it's not long.\n\n-- \ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<51CB2DCB.6030400@colby.edu>", "from": { "name": "Fernando Gouvea", "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu" }, "date": "2013-06-26T18:07:07+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview", "in_reply_to": "<26610E3A-342A-4145-B2D1-BC32453EC237@yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Sounds about right. We spend more than that on home care for my father.\n\nIt's a nasty disease for those around the sick person, that's for sure. \nThe actual sick person is often quite content.\n\nFernando" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 6/26/2013 1:41 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:\nYes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad.\n\nSent from my iPhone\n\nOn Jun 26, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like\ndeath without a funeral." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not\n*sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel\nfree to listen to that section, it's not long.\n\n-- \ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }