Episode 35: Sam J. Miller - Blue Matter

This time around, I'm joined by multi-award-nominated-and-winning author Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender)! Sam reads from his trunked novel, Blue Matter, which leads us into a great conversation about YA, the ways that genre books are in conversation with each other, and why we're ultimately glad that our journeys as creators have been the shapes they are.   Things we mention in this episode: The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller The Blade Between, by Sam J. Miller Michael Pollan  Ted Chiang  The Clarion Workshop  Octavia Butler  Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro John Bellairs  Joan Aiken  The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss Mutual assured destruction  The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss RuPaul's Drag Race  Aikido  Be the Serpent, Episode 91  Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Iambic pentameter  "The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe Hudson, NY  This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar Max and Gladstone Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir The Unbroken, by C. L. Clark The Death of Jane Lawrence and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling Boys, Beasts & Men, by Sam J. Miller Sam's website and insta    Join us again next month, when I'll be talking to R. J. Theodore and Ivy Noelle Weir!