{"id":52,"date":"2006-05-05T21:37:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T21:59:06","slug":"the-bat-segundo-show-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Ford &#038; Gwenda Bond (BSS #36)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3\"><img id=\"image3279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/segundo36.jpg\" alt=\"segundo36.jpg\" border-0 \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Authors:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\">Gwenda Bond<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/users.rcn.com\/delicate\/\">Jeffrey Ford<\/a>  (<a href=\"http:\/\/lbc.typepad.com\">LBC<\/a> nominee, Spring 2006)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Absent, abstaining from Bolshevik operations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> On writing a book with &#8220;everything but the kitchen sink,&#8221; baroque vs. simple language, the influence of Hammett, Glen David Gold&#8217;s <i>Carter Beats the Devil<\/i>, Rex Stout, creative serendipity, eugenics, on &#8220;playing it safe&#8221; in light of the extraordinary research unearthed, the &#8220;literary&#8221; inspiration behind the character names, Rupert Thomson, auctorial voice, on being a student of John Gardner, confrontational vs. direct prose, Sturgeon&#8217;s law, Harlan Ellison, on young writers drawing attention to themselves, Chuck Palahniuk, beleaguered college students, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/sci-fi-list.html\">Dave Itzkoff&#8217;s &#8220;reading list,&#8221;<\/a> the influence of the <i>New York Times Books Review<\/i>, <i>The Girl in the Glass<\/i> being pigeonholed as a young adult novel, reviewers overanalyzing the word &#8220;mawkish,&#8221; and genre classification.<\/p>\n[<b>INTERVIEW NOTES:<\/B> The interviews were all conducted by telephone.]\n<p>(To listen to our second interview with Jeffrey Ford, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/jeffrey-ford-ii-bss-191\/\">go here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_232\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-52-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=52-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo36.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo36.mp3\">Download<\/a> (45.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Gwenda Bond and Jeffrey Ford (LBC nominee, Spring 2006) Condition of Mr. Segundo: Absent, abstaining from Bolshevik operations. 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