Postcards from a Dying World

If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather  up my book reviews and do a digest based on what I read over the month.  Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir  Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams  The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper  Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vander meer   The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evens...

50 episodes! The majority of the episodes of this podcast come out of my desire to explore the worlds of the books I read. I like to learn from the authors I am reading but also it is a way I can give back and promote the authors and their books. I like giving back and I believe in the Book-a-sphere.  I always say if you want to support this podcast you can support by picking up a copy of my...

Postcards number 49 is a special one. My guest Brian Keene will need no introduction to horror fiction fans. Brian writes novels, comic books,  short stories, and nonfiction. He is the author of over fifty books,  mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. In 2014 I was on hand to watch him receive the World Horror Grandmaster Award and he has been nominated six times for the Bram...

For episode 48 I have a conversation with a young and upcoming voice in the rising Queer horror movement. Of course, queer horror is nothing new  Clive Barker and Poppy Z. Brite were out voices as far back as the 80s  and 90s but exciting new things are happening in this space and Hailey has become a leader in the movement based on the strength of Her novella  The Worm and His Kings...

Really excited to talk in this episode to Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated, and won multiple awards. Alma also writes novels of historical fiction with supernatural and horror vibes. The Hunger is a novel about the Donner Party, and was named one of N...

If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.  There was no digest in April because I was on a tight deadline for a screenplay, still working on it but the first draft is done, as always go to my blog or Goodreads for complete reviews. Books covered in this episode: Our War by Craig DiLouie Fra...

In this episode of Postcards,three-time we have a very special guest the three time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors.  Langan was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on the Board of Directors.  She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received her Master’s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicolog...

Sébastien Doubinsky is a writer and a poet born in Paris. Having spent part of his childhood in the United States he widely published writings in both English and French. He is a radical thinker with a background in the pioneer days of punk rock who writes radical protest fiction that is sometimes speculative and sometimes experimental. In this episode, we discuss his roots, and career but mostly...

If Richard Matheson is not one of the most important writers of the 20th  Century he is without any doubt the most underrated. A master of the short story,  the novel, television, and the silver screen. As his  longtime editor, Greg Cox is known for saying “you may not know his name  but you know his work.” The Thing on the wing of the plane, the button box, the Night Stalker,...

Craig DiLouie is an author of thrillers, apocalyptic/horror, and science fiction. He has been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA. Warning novels are important. So like Sinclair Lewis It Can’t Happen here felt like a wel...

If  reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. Full reviews are on my blog and Good Reads. Lots of great interviews coming up. •You can find my books here:  https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodre...

Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of  Westlake Soul and The Forgotten Girl. That 2017 novel was a finalist  for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of  Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by  Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s new novel is a gonzo one-woman army  crime thriller L...

If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. •You can find my books here:  https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitte...

When I was in high school there were several bands that I considered the  soundtrack of the youth if that era had a house band it was the  Louisville hardcore band Endpoint> Whenever I could I traveled to shows around the Midwest to Endpoint.  At the end of their 7-year run,  they played an emotional and compassionate style of hardcore that  evolved from their early day...

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop right here in San Diego, Sam has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. C...

12 days late, opps. If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather  up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. •You can find my books here:  https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agran...

Adrian J Walker is the Australian born, UK raised author of seven novels. I am like many readers who first discovered Walker’s books through a tweet from Stephen King, who tweeted that his novel End of the World Running Club was a real find. It is and we talk a lot about that novel, but the bulk of the conversation is about his equally brilliant new science fiction novel The Human Son. We talk at...

In this episode of Postcards, I have a chat with author P.Djeli Clark the author of one of my favorite books of last year Ring Shout.  Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon,  and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black  God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he...

Scott R Jones is a novelist, poet, spoken word performer, and lover of  all things weird fiction He lives in Victoria BC Canada. One of my favorite cities. Something we talk about in the interview. He is the author of tons of short stories are collected in a book entitled Shout /  Kill / Revel / Repeat.   This is my second time hosting Scott on a podcast, he joined us on the &n...

This is a very exciting episode for me! Avi Loeb is one of my dream guests! Without a doubt, Avi Loeb is my favorite Astronomer. Abraham  (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard  University. He received a Ph. D. in Physics from the Hebrew University of  Jerusalem in Israel at age 24. Loeb has written 8 books, including the book he is here to promote Ex...

So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top 15 new releases of movies I watched over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed. Langhorne gives us his films. We love talking about, debating, and breaking down mov...

So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top new releases I read over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed. I also added a few retro reads, favorite PKD reads and the Tweed-ster asks me about some of the 87 b...

Part Three of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a panel discussion of late 20th century Hong Kong cinema. I asked my panel of experts to list their favorite Hong Kong movies of the 1980s and 90s. Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, Bram Stoker Award-winning prose writer, and  a Halloween expert. One of her non-fiction books includes The Cinema of Tsui Hark (the first compr...

Part Two of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a tribute Panel to the films of Jet Li. In this episode, I am joined for a lively discussion with two guests. Up first is author and film critic Outlaw Vern. Vern has been writing long thoughtful commentaries on action movies for two decades. He is the author of two novels Niketown and Worm on a Hook, and two non-fiction books about film. Those books inclu...

In part one of my Chinese cinema trilogy, I chat with Dan Halsted the lead programmer at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon. He is the Indiana Jones of Kungfu cinema who unearth 8,000 pounds of 35 MM prints that are now traveling the world being screened everywhere. In this interview, we go deep on how he rescued the prints of these classic movies. We also get into must-watch classics and ta...