Ep 16: Rhino Horn, Diamonds & Meth, ft. Shashi Bhat
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Shashi Bhat’s new novel The Most Precious Substance on Earth
– Shashi’s first novel The Family Took Shape
– Getting accused of plagiarism as a kid
– Pen15
– Writing an accidentally successful blog
– Naben Ruthnum’s book Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
– That place where Shashi and I both went to grad school
– Melissa Bank’s book The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing
– #OwnVoices
– The Love, Simon controversy
– Kaitlyn Greenidge’s article “Who Gets to Write What?”
– The greatness of Amy Hempel
– Writing believable dialogue
– Casting the audiobook of your own novel
– The Americans
– Toastmasters
– Novels-in-stories vs. novels-in-chapters
– Emily St. John Mandel’s book The Glass Hotel
– Revising your Canadian novel for an American editor
– Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
– Columbine
– Capturing the Friedmans
– Salman Rushdie’s books Midnight’s Children and Imaginary Homelands
– Hannah Waters’ article “Inaccuracies in fiction: when is reshaping fact appropriate?”
– Margaret Atwood’s book Cat’s Eye
– Shashi’s forthcoming (?) speculative fiction novel Vancouver
– Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities
– Thank You for Smoking
– Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “In the Waiting Room”
– Lee Edelman’s abbreviated essay “On ‘In the Waiting Room’”
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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
