Last week I had a phone conversation with the engaging and omni-curious Matt Crawford, whose podcast is appropriately titled The Curious Man’s Podcast. We talked about the personal sources of my new novel, family dysfunction, loneliness, fiction vs. nonfiction, E. M. Forster, Rodney King, teenage readers, video game voice acting, Mass Effect‘s awesome Jennifer Hale, the Beethoven late string quartets, astronomy, and a bunch of other stuff. Toward the end, even FDR and Churchill get in there, somehow. Matt posted the podcast today, and you can listen to it here.
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Lit Hub piece on science and art in The Stone Loves the World
I’ve written a piece for Literary Hub about what C. P. Snow called “The Two Cultures,” scientific knowledge vs. the literary arts—how my family turned them into a quiet but sustained battle, how I straddled them in my life and in my new novel, The Stone Loves the World. You can check it out here.