by Lucy Hounsom | December 9, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFantasy – and indeed most fiction – often involves bitter rivalries. Fights over a kingdom or territory, long-standing feuds where people no longer even remember why it began… Such opposing forces are also a key...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 25, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are destroying our planet. The scientists agree, there is no denying that catastrophic climate change is imminent. And yet our leaders continue to pay lip service to the issue without taking real, impactful...
by Megan Leigh | November 11, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe incredible Ursula K. Le Guin won the National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters in 2014. In her much-shared speech, she noted that “hard times are coming, when we’ll be...
by Megan Leigh | October 28, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYour body is a temple – a saying that has been with us for centuries. The message: look after your body because you and it are going to be together for a long time. The body is in a symbiotic relationship with the...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 14, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe idea of perfection, the perfect being, is one of the oldest stories in the world. How that perfection might be tainted, or turn against the hand that made it, is something that has always intrigued writers of...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 30, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFemale friendships tend to take a back seat in our narratives, so that when they are given the space to exist, they exist almost solely to discuss a man. Virginia Woolf once commented that “all the great women...