{"id":102,"date":"2006-12-04T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=102"},"modified":"2012-02-29T23:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:46:39","slug":"bss-82-kelly-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-82-kelly-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Link (BSS #82)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Link is most recently the author of <i>Magic for Beginners<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/kellylink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6418\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-102-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=102-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo82.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 53:29 &#8212; 49.0MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellylink.net\/\">Kelly Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> At odds with his boyhood dreams.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Coffee, the Turkish language, planting little clues within stories, real-life inspirations for fantasy, writing short stories vs. novels, the value of a gestation period, <a href=\"http:\/\/maudnewton.com\/blog\/?p=5492\">on being easily distracted<\/a>, being thrown off guard, Link&#8217;s pattern-making impulse, Douglas Adams, board games, Cadbury Creme Eggs, breakfast cereals, childhood sense memory, depicting characters without backstory, zombies, having psychologists as parents, William Gibson, bookstores, Edward Gorey, self-publishing, Ben Fountain&#8217;s <i>Brief Encounters with Che Guevara<\/i>, review coverage, &#8220;literary&#8221; credibility, Scott Smith&#8217;s <i>The Ruins<\/i>, the &#8220;literary fiction&#8221; label vs. the &#8220;science fiction&#8221; label, <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/books\/feature\/2005\/02\/12\/lovecraft\/index.html\">Laura Miller and H.P. Lovecraft<\/a>, taxonomies, Shelley Jackson&#8217;s illustrations, fonts and EC Comics, reacting to older work, &#8220;massaging&#8221; work, Clarion, George Saunders and <i>New Yorker<\/i> &#8220;fantasy&#8221; vs. genre fantasy, and &#8220;fictiony literature.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Link:<\/b> I think that being easily distracted mirrors, or is the same thing in some ways, as noticing connections too easily. And that does mean that once you have, once you&#8217;re solidly at work on a story, everything you see around you, you can sort of pull in and use.  Everything in the story you can sort of tie down to other parts of the story.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6419\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-102-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=102-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo82.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo82.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 53:29 &#8212; 49.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Link is most recently the author of Magic for Beginners. 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