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The Craftsman’s Workshop: Slow Productivity and Better Stories

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The Consolation of Fantasy

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Fantasy For Our Time: Should We Be Inspired by the Masters or Subvert Them?

April 25, 2022

In this throwback episode, I officially get publicly and loudly angry about The Last Jedi. Seriously, though, paying homage to those masters…

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Fantasy for Our Time: The Power of Story – A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Vesper Stamper

April 18, 2022

In this wide-ranging conversation with YA author Vesper Stamper, we talk about the power of story, the ways trauma can lead to…

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Fantasy for Our Time: The Green Knight and the Secular Apocalypse

April 11, 2022

Generally, I like to focus on the ways that fantasy stories help form us and make us into better humans; but, is…

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Fantasy for Our Time: The Best Epic Sci-fi of the Last Decade – An Interview with Christopher Ruocchio

April 4, 2022

You’ve heard me rant about bad storytelling before. And I will admit I have been a bit worried about the tendencies of…

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Fantasy for Our Time: Till We Have Faces – The Fulfillment of All Heroic Journeys

March 28, 2022

C. S. Lewis’s final novel Till We Have Faces is a novelization and adaptation of the Roman myth “Cupid and Psyche.” Rather…

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Fantasy for Our Time: Communal Catharsis and the Last Unicorn

March 21, 2022

In this episode of “Fantasy for our Time,” fantasy author Nicholas Kotar tackles the difficult task of addressing the war in Ukraine….

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