Rick Kleffel

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

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Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column Interviews, Book Reviews, News and Commentary.

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Rick Kleffel

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Arts

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www.trashotron.com

Latest episode

May 5, 2026

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Episodes

1047: A 2011 Interview with Kevin Poulsen 21.03.2011

"Max was pretty good at sussing out snitches...He wasn't perfect, if he'd been perfect, he wouldn't be in jail now."

1046: A 2011 Interview With Diana Paxson 17.03.2011

"Anything that has an identity has a spirit."

1045: Three, no Four Books With Alan Cheuse 16.03.2011

E. L. Doctorow, 'All the Time in the World,' Kevin Brockmeir, 'The Illumination,' Tea Obreht, 'The Tiger's Wife, Leslie Daniels, 'Cleaning Nabokov's House'

1044: Gail Carriger Interviewed at SF in SF on March 3, 2011 15.03.2011

"I do things like character design boards..."

1043: A 2011 Interview with T. C. Boyle 14.03.2011

"I write in order to see what comes next."

1042: Diana Paxson Interviewed at SF in SF on January 15, 2010 11.03.2011

"I served as leader of the Covenant of Goddess for Two Years..."

1040: A 2011 Phone Interview With TC Boyle 09.03.2011

"Well, God, when he was writing this book, and I think it was a bestseller in its day, he didn't really take into account the fact that we, ourselves, are animals."

1039: A 2011 Interview With Peggy Orenstein 07.03.2011

"I didn't want her to think that there was anything she had to do because she was a girl."

1038: A 2011 Phone Interview with Peggy Orenstein 05.03.2011

"The thing about Bella is that she is completely ... bland."

1037: Panel Discussion from SF in SF, January 15, 2011, with Terry Bisson, Diana Paxson and Rudy Rucker 03.03.2011

"I was very much into Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs." - Rudy Rucker "I said there were five sequels." - Diana Paxson

1036: The Agony Column Live, February 12, 2011 with Matt Stewart and Joshua Mohr 02.03.2011

"...if we all see the same thing, we're all seeing entirely different things..." - Josh Mohr "It's much rarer these days that everybody reads the same books and talks about it. - Matt Stewart

1035: A 2010 Interview with Richard Matheson 28.02.2011

"I'm a disbeliever in genre...I think there should just be stories."

1034: The Agony Column Live, February 12, 2011: Matt Stewart and Joshua Mohr Read From Their Work 25.02.2011

"Esmerelda is in an underground extreme food training ground compound in Marin ..." - Matt Stewart "This will not help your appetite, whatsoever..." - Josh Mohr

1033: Diana Paxson Reads at SF in SF on January 15, 2011 24.02.2011

"Our hero, who is from Greece, has been faced with the problem of how to turn a lump of meteor iron into a sword."

1032: Rudy Rucker Reads at SF in SF, on January 15, 2011 23.02.2011

"The Birth of Transrealism"

1031: A 2011 Interview with Deborah Harkness 21.02.2011

"So often that's what scholars feel when they open a book for the first time, 'Oh no, this isn't what I thought it would be.'"

1029 : A 2011 Interview with Sam Sax 18.02.2011

"It's like walking around the city and talking to myself."

1030: Two Books Alan Cheuse : 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut and 'Caribou Island' by David Vann 17.02.2011

"I read for a couple of years and this family came into my mind..."

1028: A 2011 Interview With Evan Karp 16.02.2011

"We try to replicate the experience of what the show was like."

1025: A 2011 Interview with David Vann 14.02.2011

"There can be this awful sense of momentum."

1026: A 2011 Interview with David Vann: Full Sequence 14.02.2011

"There can be this awful sense of momentum."

1027 : A 2011 Interview with David Vann: Readings 14.02.2011

"There can be this awful sense of momentum."

1024: Steve R. Boyett Interviewed at SF in SF on November 13, 2010 10.02.2011

"I'm like a magician who is distracting you with these details and what you haven’t questioned is, 'There's a talkin' horse.'"

1023: Panel Discussion from SF in SF on November 13, 2010, with Terry Bisson, Steven R. Boyett and Dale Pendell 09.02.2011

"...the wounds are so fresh, the blood is scarcely dry..." - Dale Pendell

1022: A 2011 Interview with Siobhan Fallon 07.02.2011

"Soldiers like to tell stories ... and I'm a good listener."

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