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Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode # 183 My novel Great America in Dead World (With Lord Running Clam and Keith Giles)Postcards is back! I took a hiatus so I could finish a novel and a few other things. One of the other things was finishing the release of my 11th novel, Great America in Dead World. This novel is a philosophical science fiction experiment that is pretty much a homage to Philip K. Dick. In this episode, Lord Running Clam (author of Pink Beam the PKD companion) and my editor, Keith Giles interview me about the novel. More new episodes are on the way…Buy the book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/great-america-in-dead-world-david-agranoff/1147438405?ean=9781964252469 “Kai...
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Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #182 Star Wars/ Andor Season 2 Round Table discussion panelSo I am still in my unofficial hiatus to work on my novel-in-progress. I really had to do this episode because like many people I have tons of thoughts about Andor Season 2. I gathered some friends and colleagues that I thought would have good takes on the series. In this panel I welcomed a diverse group of folks. Issa Diao former vocalist of Good Clean Fun and veteran of my Star Trek breakdowns is back, then we have (Fn)David Woken who is a librarian who has studied labor and revolutionary history in Latin...
2025-05-222h 15
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #158 Unproduced Screenplay Series - Alien3 1st draft by David TwohyWelcome to a new sub-series of the podcast devoted to screenplays for movies that never got made. There are tons of famous screenplays from Oliver Stone’s first draft of Conan to Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness. For each episode in this series, we will read and review a script that never got made.
In this episode, I am joined by author Anthony Trevino and Musician/Filmmaker Issa Diao to discuss David Twohy’s 1989 script for Alien3. The writer of The Fugitive and the future director of Pitch Black, Below and a Perfect Getaway was th...
2024-09-161h 37
Postcards from a Dying WorldEp 152 * SF Hall of Fame #7 The Weapons Shop by AE Van Vogt w/ David Gill & Keith GilesIn 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on Philip K Dick. Wait a second I thought this episode was about AE Van Vogt...
2024-08-121h 29
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode# 139: Interview with prolific Star Trek author David Mack about Picard:FirewallWhen Star Trek Voyager’s popular character Seven of Nine returned to the franchise in the first season of Picard it was a closely guarded secret in that first episode back Seven mentioned years spent being a frontier law enforcer with an outfit called the Fenris Rangers. My guest in this episode is prolific Star Trek author David Mack. When he heard the name Fenris Rangers, he paused the show, wrote his editor, and said put me in coach. It took a couple of years but Mack eventually got the green light to tell this story.
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2024-02-261h 16
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 116: 5 Graves to Cairo/ Army of Shadows discussion (WW II mission movie mini-series #3)Hey there listeners. In this episode, we continue a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. The novel comes
out next month, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspired it.
In this episode, I am joined by an old friend. David Woken is a librarian with a history focus, but he is a film nerd t...
2023-07-171h 38
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW Bonus episode Six Reasons You Should Read F. Paul Wilson(author of Repairman Jack)I was sad to learn that NY Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson suffered from a stroke. He is working to get back to health, but in my
attempt to send healing vibes, I made a 20-minute bonus video with six reasons why you should be reading F. Paul Wilson. Paul was on the
podcast twice, although he also appeared once on Dickheads for a panel about Tony Boucher. The first time he joined Postcards the interview was
done before I had a podcast. I was teaching a class on novel outlining and I talked to Paul for background...
2023-04-3021 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode# 105 Interview w/ David James Keaton author of Head CleanerThis interview is overdue on the podcast. David James Keaton is a guest I have wanted on many times before. His work circles around bizarro, science fiction, and horror. His latest novel Head Cleaner is one I was looking forward to for some time. Head Cleaner is a Sci-fi horror hybrid that exists pays loving homage to the VHS era and more importantly the random video stores. In this discussion, we talk about movies, video stores, VHS time distortion, and this mind-bending and at times hilarious novel. Don’t worry we give a spoiler warning before we get into de...
2023-02-271h 35
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 97: Interview with Sci-fi Legend David Gerrold author of HellaDavid Gerrold is the legendary screenwriter and novelist who is most famous for inventing Tribbles and writing much of the series bible of Star Trek The Next Generation. More importantly, he is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of The Martian Child, The Man Who Folded Himself, and the War Against the Chtorr series of books.
His most recent novel Hella was one of my favorite reads of 2021. It is an incredible work of world-building and hard science speculative fiction. Set on a colony world that has enormous everything. This is a shorter interview than I normally...
2022-12-0539 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldBonus Nightmare City novel preview! My new novel (written w/Anthony Trevino) out now!Special bonus episode of postcards... after years of teasing it my Dickheads Podcast co-host Anthony Trevino and I are stoked to announce the release of our novel Nightmare City with Grand Mal press. This is a cross-genre of Horror, Science Fiction, and Crime. A dark urban fantasy, Nightmare City is a wild introduction to a bizarre future.
This panel discussion is hosted by Desmond Reddick author of the Mother of Abominations and host of Dread Media and features the authors of Nightmare City David Agranoff (me!) and Anthony Trevino and Grant Wamack author of God's Leftovers. Desmond and Gran...
2022-12-0149 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 96: Andor Season One Star Wars Round table W/ Issa Diao, Ryan J. Downey & Dawud KhuluqWelcome to the second Star Wars roundtable. Two hours of Star Wars nerd-out this time talking about Andor Season one!
Joining me are three old friends Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao is a veteran of the Trek panels, Ryan J. Downey is a rock and entertainment journalist who joined us for The Strange New Worlds Panel, and joining us for the first is Dawud Khuluq who does an Instagram page Jedi Sufism. Andor is the Best Star Wars TV but is it our favorite? Hating the Luthan is a Jedi theory, Ryan and David shout-out Screen Crush east...
2022-11-292h 27
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #94 Bonus - Top Ten Horror Novels that Should Be Movies*Note new my new novel Nightmare City (co-written w/ Anthony Trevino out soon!*
Welcome to a special bonus Top Ten list. Halloween 2022 is coming up and I thought we should talk about ten horror fiction novels (ok two short stories and a bunch of novels) I would like to see made as movies. There are some exciting adaptations coming up with Paul Tremblay’s Cabin at the End of the World becoming a movie and we have recently seen Josh Malerman and Tim Lebbon’s genius novel Bird box and The Silence get made. Sarah Pinbrough’s Behind her...
2022-10-2322 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode # 91 1930s SF series: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell W/ Guests Authors Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon and Mary Sangiovanni
Part 4 of the 1930s Science Fiction series…
Read it from Astounding August 1938 p. 60: https://archive.org/details/as_1938_08/page/n3/mode/2up
In August of 1938 Astounding magazine ran a short story by the magazine’s own editor John W. Campbell under the pen-name Don A. Stuart. While the story was purchased by the magazine’s former editor this story Who Goes There would go on to become one of the all-time classics of Science Fiction and horror. It has inspired three movies already including the direct adaptation in 1982 by director John Carpenter into t...
2022-10-031h 30
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #90 1930s Sci-Fi Series Rule - 18 by Clifford Simak w/ Alec Nevala- Lee & Seth Heasley.In July 1938 Astounding magazine under the editorship of John W. Campbell published a story for the first by future Grand master Clifford D. Simak. This story Rule-18 was not a classic, nor was it considered one of the great SF writer's better stories. OK, so why the hell are we covering it on this series devoted to classic SF stories classics of the 30s? The impact of this story is an interesting case. When the issue ran the story was dismissed in the letter column by a young fan from Brooklyn named Issac Asimov. Wanting to understand his issues...
2022-09-261h 36
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #89 1930s Sci-fi 'Alas, All Thinking' with Anthony Trevino and Langhorne J. TweedIn this second episode of the 1930s podcast series, I have dug into the vault to re-package a classic Dickheads podcast episode from our first season in 2018 when we were gathering in the studio. In this episode, we cover 'Alas, All Thinking' by Harry Bates most famous for writing the story that inspired the Day the Earth Stood Still. Originally published in the June 1935 issue of Astounding Magazine, a young Philip K. Dick considered this one of his favorite Science Fiction stories and a major influence on his writing.
Audio only this week... the DHP video here:
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2022-09-1928 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #88 1930s Sci-fi Shambleau by Catherine L Moore w/ guests SF historian Cora Buhlert and author Greg Cox)In November 1933 Weird Tales featured the first published science fiction of Catherine L. Moore, who wrote under the name CL Moore. This story Shambleau features a very cosmic horror style vampire and space rogue decades before Han Solo became a thing. This story has the elegant purple prose that Lovecraft was known for while at the same time featuring themes that would be considered lurid today.
In this episode we look into CL Moore’s life, growing up in my home state of Indiana, going to college walking distance from my childhood home, her first adventures in pu...
2022-09-121h 45
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode # 87 Sarah Pinborough author of Behind Her Eyes on her new Novel InsomniaIn episode 87 I welcome one of my favorite writers to the show! Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 25 territories worldwide. Having published more than 27 novels across various genres, her recent books including Behind Her Eyes that was a viral sensation on Netflix in January 2021. Her most recent novel Insomnia is being developed for TV and she is adapting it herself. Her fiction includes horror, thrillers, historical, fantasy, dystopia and YA.
Sarah Pinborough is one of the few authors that I will...
2022-08-291h 12
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 86: Alma Katsu returns to talk about her historical horror novel The Fervor!Returning to the pod is the great Alma Katsu who is here to talk about the novel she was writing and teased in her last appearance on the show. The Fervor is a supernatural historical horror about the Japanese internment camps during WW 2.
Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards, and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR, the Observer, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon.
RED WIDOW is her first...
2022-08-221h 15
Postcards from a Dying WorldEp #84 Interview With Maurice Broaddus author of Sweep of StarsVery excited to welcome fellow Hoosier Maurice Broaddus. He is the author of one of my favorite reads of the year - the first of a Afrofuturist space opera trilogy the Sweep of Stars.
Maurice Broaddus is a community organizer and teacher, his work has appeared in magazines like Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, Magazine of F&SF, and Uncanny Magazine, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk works, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, an...
2022-07-251h 04
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #83 Interview with Tim Lebbon author of The Silence and The Last StormTim Lebbon is a British horror, science fiction and dark fantasy writer. The author of close to 50 novels ranging from The Silence to several media tie-ins franchises. Lebbon's short story ″Reconstructing Amy″ won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001, his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year. His novelization of the film 30 Days of Night became a New York Times bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008. The film Pay the Ghost starring Nicholas Cage is based on his short story of the same name. The Silen...
2022-07-191h 14
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 81: Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 1 panel with Ryan J. Downey, Issa Diao and Sara Lynn MichenerAfter every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the first fantastic season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Returning for our 5th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and Podcaster, Music, and film journalist Ryan J. Downey.
2 Plus hours of Star Trek talk. We talk about why Strange New Worlds works, our favorite episodes, what works...
2022-07-112h 18
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 80: Interview with Gretchen Felker-Martin author of ManhuntIn this episode, we talk about one of the most thought-provoking and controversial horror novels of the year with the author Gretchen Felker-Martin. Manhunt is a brutal extreme horror novel as advertised. The cover certainly should be warning enough. This novel has zero fucks to give to any pearl-clutchers. That said it is also a character-driven story about a gender-specific apocalypse, and it might be the best one since the OG Alice Sheldon’s Screwfly Solution. The first one to really explore the issue from a trans point of view.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Gretchen Felker...
2022-05-181h 10
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 79: Interview with Bev Vincent author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration...I am excited to be joined by Bev Vincent author and Stephen King expert on the show. Leading up to the forthcoming publication of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of his Work, Life, and Influences I thought it was a good time to chat with Bev. Bev Vincent is the author of The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated companion to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or...
2022-05-131h 10
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 78: Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Panel with Sara Lynn Michener and Issa DiaoAfter every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the second eventful season of Picard. Returning for our fourth season breakdown are, vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
Listen to Sara slowly and patiently try to convince Issa and I that were wrong to not really like this season very much. In the end she changed our minds about many things. We all agreed on many positive notes i...
2022-05-091h 39
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode # 77 Interview with Author and Halloween expert Lisa MortonLisa Morton is an important and beloved figure in the horror community, besides being the president of the Horror Writer’s Association for many years she is one of the world’s most knowledgeable Halloween experts. A pretty cool thing to be an expert in if you ask me. Those two things already make her cool, but ad to that she has written a book about the films of ace Hong Kong director Tusi Hark and is an accomplished novelist. Her novel The Castle of Los Angeles is a criminally underrated haunted theater tale. She has a couple of Bram...
2022-05-051h 28
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW Episode #76: Interview with Wendy Wagner Author of The Secret SkinIn this episode, we talk with Wendy Wagner about her gothic novella The Secret Skin. We talk about Wendy’s path to horror, her writing process, and developing this gothic novella. We spend the first half avoiding spoilers and in the second half we drill down on Wagner’s incredible skill for writing powerful sentences.
Wendy N. Wagner is a writer and Hugo award-winning editor. She is the author of nearly fifty short stories and two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game. Her third novel, An Oath of Dogs, came out in July 2017 from Angry Robot Books. She is curr...
2022-04-041h 03
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #75 A Conversation with Author Duncan Barlow about Learning to Write with Learning Disabilities.The theme of this episode is writing with Learning Disabilities. What most of you might not know is that I have dyslexia and a few other learning disabilities. I have a couple of books published and have been nominated for a few awards, but I struggled with my education and was bullied quite a bit as a young person. In my teenage years, I made a friend in Duncan Barlow who grew up one state away but our paths were similar. In this episode, Duncan and I talk about our journeys from the special needs classroom to published novelists. ...
2022-03-281h 39
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #74: The Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 panel with Sara Lynn Michener, Issa Diao and Tony Peak.After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we are talking and the first half of Star Trek Prodigy. For this panel, I am joined by two active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans returning from the Lower Decks panel are Vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao, and Science Fiction author Tony Peak.
Listen to the episode to get our opinion on the fourth season the new Star Trek series...
2022-03-222h 10
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 73 Interview with Christoph Paul - Publisher, Editor, Author and MusicianChristoph Paul is an overdue interview for me. He is the managing editor of CLASH Books, of course, they are one of my publishers and Christoph is an editor I have worked with. He is an award-winning author who cut his teeth writing erotica satires under the name Mandy DeSandra which he self-published and learned the publishing biz long before he and his wife author Leza Cantoral started Clash Books. They publish risky and powerful indie books that have led to them recently expanding to include national distribution and a roster of diverse writers.
He also plays...
2022-03-071h 09
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 72: Rio Youers Returns to talk No Second Chances and Sleeping BeautiesRio Youers is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, and a writer I love to chat with about craft. His newest novel is No Second Chances, an action in a novel form much like his last novel Lola on Fire which we talked about in episode of 40 of this podcast. If you want Rio’s origin story that is in that episode. No Second Chances and the last one Lola on Fire straight action and crime stories built entirely on the power and strength of the Rio Youers secret ingredient. Characters. This freaking Youers guy knows how to write cha...
2022-03-011h 20
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #71 Interview with Jayaprakash Satyamurthy Author, Poet and Musician.Joining Postcards for the first time is Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. He is the author, poet, bass player, vegan, animal rescuing collection of awesomeness hailing from Bangalore India. I have podcasted with JP once before on Dickheads for the episode on Counter-Clock World, I recommend that episode where we went deep on Indian Science fiction and of course Philip K Dick.
Since that episode, I read and reviewed JP’s latest collection of fiction Come Tomorrow. In my review, I said this: The comparisons to great writers like Thomas Liggoti and Laird Barron are fair. There is a similar level...
2022-02-211h 34
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #70: The Star Trek Prodigy panel with Sara Lynn Michener, and Issa Diao.After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we are talking and the first half of Star Trek Prodigy. For this panel, I am joined by two active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans returning from the Lower Decks panel are Vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
Listen to the episode to get our opinion on the first Star Trek series made for kids!
•You can find my books...
2022-02-111h 25
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #69: Our Favorite Reads of 2021 with guest Marc RothenbergFor the episode numbered with Macgruger's passwords, we countdown our 2021 Favorite reads! I asked my homey and longest horror book nerd friend Judge Marc Rothenberg to join me. You might remember him from the best horror short stories episode to return and count down our top reads of the year. Featuring my favorite Retro reads, non-fiction, honorable mentions, and top ten. It features books from Rivers Solomon, Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Hailey Piper, Stephen King, John Shirley, C.Robert Cargill, and more. If you need it all written out head over to my blog...
http://davidagranoff.blogspot...
2021-12-312h 06
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #68 My Favorite Movies of 2021 with guest Issa Diao (of Good Clean Fun)Here are my ten Favorite movies of 2021! Joining me on the podcast Is Issa Diao, he is a filmmaker, having written and directed a film with the same name Good Clean Fun as his long-time band. As lead vocalist of Good Clean Fun Issa traveled toured internationally and he is a total movie nerd. In this episode, we talk about our favorite movies of 2021.
For the first time in forever, my favorite is not a genre movie! Countdown with us!
•You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW
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2021-12-301h 43
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #67 Interview With Quoc Bao Tran the Writer-Director of The Paper Tigers*Note The audio starts rough on my mic, but it gets better. Promise.
My guest this week is writer, director, and film editor Tran Quoc Bao. His first directorial feature the Paper Tigers is one of my favorite movies I saw this year. It is a hilarious and super fun Kungfu comedy that is perfect for fans of Cobra Kai or No Retreat No Surrender. I loved the hell out of the movie. I reached out to Bao to let him know I loved the movie and he was kind enough to come on the podcast. This...
2021-12-201h 14
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 66: Interview with Cadwell Turnbull Author of No Gods No MonstersIn this episode of Postcards, I welcome Cadwell Turnbull. author of the science fiction novel The Lesson. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. The short story “Loneliness is in Your Blood” was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, and the story "Jump" was selected for the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. The Lesson was the recipient of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category.
In this episode, we are focusing on his second novel No Gods No Monsters that I jokingly called an Ana...
2021-12-131h 27
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 65: Interview W/ Ryan C. Thomas & Anthony Trevino on Hissers 3This is a fun one. In this episode of Postcards, I welcome two good friends of mine to talk about the third and final book in the Hissers trilogy. If you are not familiar with this series of monster mash/ zombie hybrid novels written by horror author Ryan C. Thomas. The author of several horror novels Ryan’s most well-known novel The Summer I Died is a cult classic a decade and a half after it was published that has inspired two gore-drenched sequels. When came time to finish the final book of Ryan’s Hissers trilogy he was unhappy...
2021-12-071h 30
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #64: Interview with SB Divya on her novel MachinehoodOne of the best books I read this year is a new science fiction novel by debut novelist S.B. Diviya. This novel Machinehood is a smart and effective novel. The grandest of science fiction are the tales you can hold up like a mirror to the issues of today. Even more grand are novels that decades like still feel like they are that mirror. I suspect it will be in conversation during award season.
Diviya has spent 20 years as an electrical engineer in various fields including pattern recognition, machine intelligence, high-speed communications, digital music, and m...
2021-11-291h 14
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 63: Short Story Reading Mister Crow ReportingHello listeners this is a bonus episode that features a recording of myself reading my short story Mister Crow Reporting. This story was first published in San Diego Horror Professionals Volume One. There are three volumes of the series and I like all three and recommend them. They are all available from Grand Mal Press.
The book is here:
https://www.amazon.com/San-Diego-Horror-Professionals-1/dp/1539354040
•You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW
•And me here: Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff
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2021-11-2214 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 62: Paul Mahern vocalist of the Zero Boys on Teaching the History of Punk RockPaul Mahern was 16 years old when he played guitar and sang for the Zero Boys one of the pioneering punk bands of the early 80s punk scene in my home state of Indiana. He is also an adjunct lecturer in music in general studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His recording clients include John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, and Iggy Pop. He has produced and/or engineered 11 RIAA-certified gold or platinum albums. In 2017, the Indianapolis Star listed Mahern as the fifteenth most influential musician of all time from Indiana. This list of 25 musicians also includes...
2021-11-151h 32
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 61: Star Trek Season Finale Roundtable Lower Decks Season 2!OK, a new regular thing we are going to do around here. After every season of Star Trek, I am going to gather a panel of nerds together and we will talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. First up is Lower Decks Season 2. For this panel, I am joined by Three active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans - Sara Lynn Michener, Issa Diao, and Anna Rosalind Walsh.
Listen up find out who hates cartoons, who has watched Lower Decks multiple times, and who will defend Star Trek the Motion Picture?
2021-11-011h 50
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 60: Interview With F.Paul Wilson - Double ThreatReturning to the podcast is one of my all-time favorite authors, F.Paul Wilson. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series. The majority of Paul’s work fits into a saga he and his fans called the Secret History of the World. It is an interconnected universe that puts the Dark Tower and the MCU to shame including two separate book series that ends with the same book.
This year Paul released Double Threat a book in the secret history but it stands alone (well with a sequel). In this interview, we...
2021-10-301h 20
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 59: NBA Season Preview w/ Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman and Paul Tremblay.It is time for the National Basketball Association to kick off its 75th season and sure there are lots of sports radio stations and TV pundits you can hear talk about basketball but where else are you going to find a panel of bestselling and award-winning authors talking about Basketball. All are return guests to postcards. You have the authors of Birdbox, A Headful of Ghosts, and The Only Good Indian. We chat about how we got into Basketball, why we love it, our favorite all-time players and teams, and talk about the upcoming season.
To check...
2021-10-2152 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 57: Interview with Josh Malerman (Bird Box)Who Returns to Discuss His Collection Goblin!I am super excited to welcome back Josh Malerman for his second appearance on Postcards. Josh is the NY Times bestselling author of Birdbox. In his last appearance, we talked about his origins, the cultural moment that was the Netflix adaptation of his novel, and a lot more. This time we catch up with Josh about the film "We Need to Do Something." It is the first film production from Spin a Black Yarn Productions, That Josh co-founded with his partner Ryan Lewis.
From there we turn our attention to an in-depth look at Josh's new collection of int...
2021-09-131h 22
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 56: Interview with Musician and Astronomer Konstantin Batygin (from early punk bands to searching for planets!)My guest in this episode is the one the only Konstantin Batygin. He is a musician and astronomer whose day job is as a professor of Planetary Sciences and Orbital Mechanics at Caltech. Yes, that means if the sitcom The Big Bang Theory were real, he would have an office in the same department as Sheldon. As an astronomer, his research mostly focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. He is most famous for his research with Michael E. Brown on the proposed existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System. Brown and Batygin are using...
2021-09-031h 15
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 55: Interview with Rose Eveleth Creator and Host of the Flash Forward PodcastEpisode 55 is an interview with the host and creator of the popular podcast Flash Forward - Rose Eveleth. A former producer of content at ESPN's 30 for 30 and NPR's Radiolab before going independent Rose created one of the most critically acclaimed science podcasts. Flash Forward was named one of the Best Podcasts by iTunes, Wired Magazine, New York Magazine, New Statesman, Business Insider, The Globe and Mail, Indiewire, Popular Science, and The New York Times.
Using audio drama and hardcore science reporting Flash Forward explores possible (and not so possible fantastical) futures. Asteroid mining? A future without meat? L...
2021-08-241h 05
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode# 54 Interview with Law Professor and Civil Rights Attorney Joe Dunman (from mosh pits to the Supreme Court)In this episode, I interview Joe Dunman. This is part of my series of just cool people I know interviews. I like talking to punk rock and hardcore kids that have avoided the adult crash by doing good stuff. In this case, Joe went from Louisville mosh pits to the Supreme Court to protect civil rights.
Joe is now an assistant professor of legal studies at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. He teaches undergraduate courses on torts, legal research and writing, administrative law, and individual rights. Before entering full-time teacher, Joe was an attorney in Louisville...
2021-08-161h 17
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 53: July 2021 Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on what I read over the month.
Books covered this month: The Best of Judith Merril by Judith Merril, Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 Based on the novel by Stephen King and Owen King Alison Sampson (Illustrations), Adapted by Rio Youers, A Master of Djinn by P.Djeli Clark, The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher, and Foe by Iain Reid.
•You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff
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2021-08-0910 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 52: Interview with Brian Evenson about his collection The Glassy,Burning Floor of HellEpisode 52 is a special one. My guest is Brian Evenson returning to Postcards to talk about his new short story collection with the subtle title The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. Brian Evenson is a professor of creative writing at CalTech Arts and the author of several novels including Last Days, Immobility, Feral, and an Alien Tie-in novel called No Exit under the name B.K.Evenson.
The dark surreal underbelly of high literature is kind of the space that Evenson writes in. Weird, bizarro, horror, Science Fiction, cosmic, surrealist all labels that fit stories here and...
2021-08-0458 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 51 June 2021 Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on what I read over the month.
Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
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2021-07-2910 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 50! Desmond Reddick of Dread Media interviews me about my books!50 episodes! The majority of the episodes of this podcast come out of my desire to explore the worlds of the books I read. I like to learn from the authors I am reading but also it is a way I can give back and promote the authors and their books. I like giving back and I believe in the Book-a-sphere. I always say if you want to support this podcast you can support by picking up a copy of my books. So for once, we are going to focus on my published works.
One of the few pe...
2021-07-262h 52
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 49 Interview with Horror Grandmaster and bestselling author Brian KeenePostcards number 49 is a special one. My guest Brian Keene will need no introduction to horror fiction fans. Brian writes novels, comic books, short stories, and nonfiction. He is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. In 2014 I was on hand to watch him receive the World Horror Grandmaster Award and he has been nominated six times for the Bram Stoker award and well as winning the big prize twice. His novel The Rising revolutionized the zombie novel in 2003 and was at the forefront of a rights battle with Leisure publishing who col...
2021-07-221h 17
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode 48: Interview with Hailey Piper author of The Worm and His KingsFor episode 48 I have a conversation with a young and upcoming voice in the rising Queer horror movement. Of course, queer horror is nothing new Clive Barker and Poppy Z. Brite were out voices as far back as the 80s and 90s but exciting new things are happening in this space and Hailey has become a leader in the movement based on the strength of Her novella The Worm and His Kings which is an early favorite for a favorite read of the year already.
Hailey Piper writes horror and dark fantasy and is a member of the ...
2021-06-281h 14
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #47 Interview with Alma Katsu author of The Hunger and Red WidowReally excited to talk in this episode to Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated, and won multiple awards.
Alma also writes novels of historical fiction with supernatural and horror vibes. The Hunger is a novel about the Donner Party, and was named one of NPR’s 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and is considered by many as a new classic in the genre. Her debut novel The Taker was...
2021-06-141h 18
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #46 April/May Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. There was no digest in April because I was on a tight deadline for a screenplay, still working on it but the first draft is done, as always go to my blog or Goodreads for complete reviews.
Books covered in this episode:
Our War by Craig DiLouie
Fragments of a Revolution by Seb Doubinsky
My heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen G...
2021-05-3114 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #45 Interview with Sarah Langan author of Good NeighborsIn this episode of Postcards,three-time we have a very special guest the three time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors. Langan was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on the Board of Directors. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received her Master’s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology from New York University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters.
In this wide-ranging interview, we chat about writing horror as a woman, dodging the sexist and misogynist tropes of the...
2021-05-111h 03
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #44 Interview w/ Sébastien Doubinsky author of Fragments of a RevolutionSébastien Doubinsky is a writer and a poet born in Paris. Having spent part of his childhood in the United States he widely published writings in both English and French. He is a radical thinker with a background in the pioneer days of punk rock who writes radical protest fiction that is sometimes speculative and sometimes experimental.
In this episode, we discuss his roots, and career but mostly focus on his new release from Stalking Horse books the radical novel A Fragments of a Revolution. It is a short but thought-provoking slice of fiction composed in s...
2021-05-0246 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #43 Richard Matheson Tribute Panel W/ David J. Schow, Greg Cox and John ScoleriIf Richard Matheson is not one of the most important writers of the 20th Century he is without any doubt the most underrated. A master of the short story, the novel, television, and the silver screen. As his longtime editor, Greg Cox is known for saying “you may not know his name but you know his work.” The Thing on the wing of the plane, the button box, the Night Stalker, and I am Legend to name a few. In this panel, we discuss the career and impact of Richard Matheson. Almost two hours of personal stories, nerdy details, and career...
2021-04-262h 00
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #42 Interview with Craig DiLouie author of Our WarCraig DiLouie is an author of thrillers, apocalyptic/horror, and science fiction. He has been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA.
Warning novels are important. So like Sinclair Lewis It Can’t Happen here felt like a well-timed warning 90 years after it was published. With Our War, Craig DiLouie was put in an uncomfortable place as the author of a warning novel that appeared to be coming true on...
2021-04-211h 33
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #41 March 2021 Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. Full reviews are on my blog and Good Reads. Lots of great interviews coming up.
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2021-04-0710 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #40 Interview with Rio Youers author of Lola on FireRio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Westlake Soul and The Forgotten Girl. That 2017 novel was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s new novel is a gonzo one-woman army crime thriller Lola on Fire was published by William Morrow. In this interview, we have a spoiler talk about Rio's early novels, and influences. From Westlake Soul to Lola on Fire we talk about all the books Rio has wri...
2021-04-051h 23
Postcards from a Dying WorldEpisode #39: February 2021 Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
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2021-03-1014 min
Postcards from a Dying World#38 Interview with Robert Pennington vocalist of Endpoint & By the Grace of GodWhen I was in high school there were several bands that I considered the soundtrack of the youth if that era had a house band it was the Louisville hardcore band Endpoint> Whenever I could I traveled to shows around the Midwest to Endpoint. At the end of their 7-year run, they played an emotional and compassionate style of hardcore that evolved from their early days playing metal-influenced punk. They were an amazing band and at the core, the beating heart of the music was vocalist Robert Pennington. He has fronted 11 bands including Endpoint, By the Grace of God, and Bl...
2021-03-081h 23
Postcards from a Dying World#37 Interview with Sam J. Miller author of The Blade BetweenSam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop right here in San Diego, Sam has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, and Locus Awards. He is a community activist, he lives in New York City and more than once couldn't be on a podcast panel I was recording because he had a protest on his schedu...
2021-02-151h 09
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #36 January 2021 Book Review Digest12 days late, opps. If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
•You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff
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2021-02-1310 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#35 Interview with Adrian J. Walker Author of The Human SonAdrian J Walker is the Australian born, UK raised author of seven novels. I am like many readers who first discovered Walker’s books through a tweet from Stephen King, who tweeted that his novel End of the World Running Club was a real find. It is and we talk a lot about that novel, but the bulk of the conversation is about his equally brilliant new science fiction novel The Human Son.
We talk at length about both books without spoilers at length but in the last bit, we go into the writing with Human Son wi...
2021-02-081h 15
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#34: Interview With P.Djeli Clark author of Ring ShoutIn this episode of Postcards, I have a chat with author P.Djeli Clark the author of one of my favorite books of last year Ring Shout. Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ring Shout is an amazing piece of work from a singular...
2021-02-011h 06
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#33 Interview with Scott R Jones author of StonefishScott R Jones is a novelist, poet, spoken word performer, and lover of all things weird fiction He lives in Victoria BC Canada. One of my favorite cities. Something we talk about in the interview. He is the author of tons of short stories are collected in a book entitled Shout / Kill / Revel / Repeat. This is my second time hosting Scott on a podcast, he joined us on the Zap Gun episode of Dickheads just after Anthony read and loved Scott’s debut novel Stonefish. Anthony believed in it so much that he bought me a copy not wanting to wait...
2021-01-221h 11
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#32 Interview with Avi Loeb (Harvard Astronomy Professor) on his book Extraterrestrial.This is a very exciting episode for me! Avi Loeb is one of my dream guests! Without a doubt, Avi Loeb is my favorite Astronomer. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24. Loeb has written 8 books, including the book he is here to promote Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and about 800 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the future of the Universe. He ha...
2021-01-191h 13Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#31 Top 15 Movies of 2020So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top 15 new releases of movies I watched over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed.
Langhorne gives us his films. We love talking about, debating, and breaking down movies. So hope you have fun listing to us.
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2021-01-011h 38Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #30 Top 10 Reads of 2020So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top new releases I read over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed.
I also added a few retro reads, favorite PKD reads and the Tweed-ster asks me about some of the 87 books I read this year. If you want to skip ahead to the Top Ten List it starts 44...
2020-12-311h 39
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#29 Best Hong Kong films of the 80s and 90s a panel discussionPart Three of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a panel discussion of late 20th century Hong Kong cinema. I asked my panel of experts to list their favorite Hong Kong movies of the 1980s and 90s.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, Bram Stoker Award-winning prose writer, and a Halloween expert. One of her non-fiction books includes The Cinema of Tsui Hark (the first comprehensive study of the influential Hong Kong filmmaker). Joey O'Bryan was a long time critic who wrote hundreds of detailed reviews of Hong Kong films, as a Screenwriter he has w...
2020-12-262h 41
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#28 The films of Jet Li Panel discussionPart Two of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a tribute Panel to the films of Jet Li. In this episode, I am joined for a lively discussion with two guests.
Up first is author and film critic Outlaw Vern. Vern has been writing long thoughtful commentaries on action movies for two decades. He is the author of two novels Niketown and Worm on a Hook, and two non-fiction books about film. Those books include Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal and “Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!”: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topi...
2020-12-261h 53
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#27 Interview with Dan Halsted Kung Fu film archivist and film programmer of the Hollywood Theater in PortlandIn part one of my Chinese cinema trilogy, I chat with Dan Halsted the lead programmer at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon. He is the Indiana Jones of Kungfu cinema who unearth 8,000 pounds of 35 MM prints that are now traveling the world being screened everywhere. In this interview, we go deep on how he rescued the prints of these classic movies. We also get into must-watch classics and talk about the film scene in Portland, one of the aspects of PDX I miss since returning to San Diego.
https://hollywoodtheatre.org
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2020-12-261h 26Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #26 November 2020 Book Review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
•You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff
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2020-12-0216 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #25 Exploring Dark Short Fiction series with Eric Guignard and Michael Arnzen!In the last years, Eric Guignard and his imprint Dark Moon Books have become a leader in high-quality short horror fiction. In part by releasing excellent anthologies but also the Exploring Dark Fiction series. Five books into the series am always excited to see a book of this series in my mailbox. All five books are not just entertaining but the type of collection that teaches the art of the horror short story. This series does such a wonderful job of highlighting an author and showing many sides of their skills.
Each book comes with:
• Six sho...
2020-11-261h 35
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #24 Interview with George Romero's The Living Dead co-author Daniel KrausIn this episode of Postcards from a Dying World we speak with Daniel Kraus the man hired by the Romero estate to finish the novel George A. Romero was writing at his death. The director of Night of Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and many more created the zombie genre in 1968 and this novel The Living Dead will serve as his final statement.
In this interview, we talk about the influence of Romero, How Kraus came up as an author, working with two famous masters of horror and the nuts and bolts of taking Romero's unfinished novel...
2020-11-161h 31
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#23 Interview with Omar El-Akkad author of American WarIn this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I talk to the author of the novel American War Omar El-Akkad. This novel is a Cli-fi Dystopia about a second American civil war that stands as a political allegory for Omar to shine a light on the War on Terrorism.
Omar El Akkad was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. As a journalist, he covered the war on terror on the ground. For the next decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and m...
2020-11-111h 15
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #23 Interview with Brannon Braga on Adapting Clive Barker's The Books of BloodIn this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am excited to welcome Writer, Producer, and Director Brannon Braga. His first job in Hollywood was writing for Star Trek the Next Generation before being the showrunner of Voyager and Enterprise. He also wrote two films in the Star Trek franchise. A three-time Emmy nominee Braga is currently working on The Orville and Cosmos.
In this episode, however, we are talking about his first film as director an adaptation of Clive Barker's classic anthology series The Books of Blood. The first twenty minutes of the conversation is...
2020-11-061h 17Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #22 October 2020 Book review DigestIf reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
•You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff
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2020-11-0313 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #21: Jeremy Robert Johnson on the writing of The Loop (Spoilers!)This episode of Postcards is a special one. Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of several groundbreaking books in the bizarro sub-genre, but he was always on the more horror end of the genre. He becomes the first returning interview. So go back and listen to Episode 6 that was recorded in 2017.
Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. This is a spoiler-filled discussion on the nuts and...
2020-11-011h 07
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #20 Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower ( an Interview with Damian Duffy & John Jennings)Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices. This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well.
In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings. They carrying the flag for Butler in one of the most exciting ways possible. Starting with Butler's classic novel about the horrors of Slavery Kindred. The book went on to win the 2017 Br...
2020-10-211h 27
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #19: Interview with Rose O'Keefe Publisher and Editor at Eraserhead PressThis is one of my favorite episodes yet! Rose O'Keefe is the owner and editor of the world's most prolific cult publisher Eraserhead Press. Besides the mainline Eraserhead has Deadite Press, Fungasm and more for imprints. Over almost two decades in business, Rose has published hundreds of weird books. With a passion for planning and thinking several steps ahead, Rose has been one of the major voices of a literary movement.
Since most of my books were published by Deadite and Eraserhead I have had the pleasure of working with Rose. I wanted to give the world...
2020-10-121h 22Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#18: September Book Review DigestIf reading takes to long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
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2020-10-0313 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW # 17 Top Ten Horror Novels Panel w/Mother Horror, Des Dread Media and James ChambersIn this episode of Postcards, I am joined by three nerds...uh experts in the horror genre. We count down our top ten horror novels over two hours and talk about the reasons why we picked what we did. It was a great conversation and if you like reading horror you'll be writing down titles left and right.
Joining Splatterpunk award-nominated author David Agranoff for this episode...
Sadie Hartman AKA Mother Horror. She is the creator of the Night Worms horror fiction service and writes reviews for Scream and Cemetery Dance.
Desmond Reddick...
2020-10-012h 03
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#16 Interview with David Tate of With Authority (From hardcore vocalist to warzone journalist)In this episode of Postcards, I talk with an old school friend. Growing up in Bloomington Indiana one of the most important bands of my youth was local hardcore legends With Authority who rocked warehouses and basements around the midwest. After releasing three classic records the band ended and vocalist David Tate a former Marine went on to become a TV journalist. From punk rocker to covering mass shootings and warzones in the middle east. Tate has lived an interesting life and I was glad to catch up with him.
On facebook: @battlefieldtourist
With Authority...
2020-09-2948 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#15: Interview with Stephen Graham Jones author of The Only Good IndiansOn this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am joined by author Stephen Graham Jones author of fifteen novels and six collections. He lives and teaches in Boulder Colorado. He is the author of many horror novels and a few works of experimental fiction including the Least of my Scars, Demon Theory and werewolf coming of age masterpiece Mongrels.
For the first half of the interview,, we have a spoiler-free discussion about Stephen's long and acclaimed career. The second half is a spoiler-filled nuts and bolts discussion about his new novel The Only Good Indians...
2020-09-251h 38
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#14 Interview with Bird Box author Josh Malerman(Second half is all spoilers on the process of Malorie)This episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am joined by the author of the international bestselling sensation Bird Box. Before it was the most downloaded and memed movie on Netflix it was a debut novel from my guest. It won him the Bram Stoker award and he followed it up with Black Mad Wheel, Unbury Carol, and Inspection. He is also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. In this interview, we talk in the first hour without spoilers about all of Josh's books and his career. In the second we drill dow...
2020-09-131h 58Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #13 August Book Review DigestI read eight books in the month of August - here is a quick recap. If you want the full reviews go to my blog and use your eyeballs.
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2020-09-0215 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#12: Interview with Paul Tremblay! (full spoilers on Survivor Song)Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World. His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year. Not every horror novel gets tweets from Stephen King and reviewed on NPR.
I have already read and reviewed Survivor Song on my blog, hosted a panel discussion and now I am proud to welcome the author himself to the podcast. This not an appearance to promote the book. Paul and I are assuming that if y...
2020-09-011h 08
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#11 Survivor Song Panel Discussion!Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World. His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year. In this episode, I am joined by two talented writers Daniel Vlasty and Kirk Jones is to discuss this novel. Daniel Vlasty is the author of several street level crime novels Only Bones and Stay Ugly. Kirk Jones is the Science Fiction and bizarro author of Fuck Happines and Die Empty.
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2020-09-011h 06
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW # 10 Interview with Author and Musician John ShirleyJohn Shirley is a musician and the award-winning author of more than thirty books. As co-screenwriter of The Crow, he gave Eric Draven a guitar and William Gibson called him Cyberpunk Patient Zero. In my opinion, he has masterpieces in both Science Fiction (City Come-a-Walkin') and Horror (Wetbones). At the forefront of Bizarro, Cyper, and Splatterpunk it was John who actually put the punk in those movements. Not only was he wearing dog collars to Science Fiction conventions in the 70s he was fronting early Portland punk bands like Obsession and Sado-nation.
John is back with a...
2020-08-251h 16
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #9: Interview with author Laird BarronWhen Laird Barron first announced Blood Standard as his first straight crime novel I was excited that an author known for cosmic horror and dread was giving his talents to a project like this. He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories. "Mysterium Tremendum" won a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. He is also a 2009 nominee for his novelette "Catch Hell" Other award nominations include the Crawford Award, Sturgeon Award, International Horror Guild Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Locus Award.
T...
2020-08-161h 04
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#8 Punk Rock Ghost Story song commentarySo, over the last few years I have released several punk rock themed horror fiction novels including, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich and Punk Rock Ghost Story. I also have a short story collection called Amazing Punk Stories and my final punk horror novel People’s Park is on the way. In that time, I have co-written and recorded original songs to go with two of the books. The music was written and recorded by my old friend Rat from England. In the case of Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich we wrote two Oi! Style songs. For Pun...
2020-08-051h 31Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW# 7 July 2020 Book ReviewJuly 2020 Book Review digest Featuring
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, Extrapolation 61.1-2 Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek, An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon, Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu (Translator), Star Trek Picard The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack, Dead To Her by Sarah Pinborough.
Great month of reading!
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2020-08-0216 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #6 Interview W/ Jeremy Robert Johnson (2017)Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. Stephen Graham Jones, Laura Lee Bahr, and Brian Evenson are authors who I think walk this line that some times touches Horror, Bizarro, and fine Literature all in the same stories. But Jeremy was a flag holder for the movement so Entropy in Bloom and the soon to be released novel The Loop feels different.
This interview was recorded on 8/3/17 when...
2020-07-2856 min
Postcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#5: F.Paul Wilson talks about the Art of Outlining.F.Paul Wilson is the bestselling author of science fiction and Horror. He is one of my all-time favorite writers, and since I read The Keep in the 8th grade I have been a devoted fan.
This is NOT an interview. In 2017 when this was recorded I was preparing to teach a class on writing horror novels at the Horrible imaginings Film Fest here in San Diego. My part of the class was about writing outlines for plot and structure. I had taken a class on the subject with F. Paul Wilson at the Borderlands Writers Boot...
2020-07-2456 minPostcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#4 Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey Book Review and Dissussion (W/ Marvin Vernon)If you enjoyed this audio review of the Boy on the Bridge check out our reviews on our blogs www.DavidAgranoff.blogspot.com and Marvin can be found at: www.thenovelpursuit.blogspot.com
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2020-07-2031 minPostcards from a Dying WorldPFDW#3 Interview with Cody Goodfellow at 2013 Bizarro conOldie but a goodie, I interviewed Cody at the 6th annual Bizarro con and we talked about many things.
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2020-07-1932 minPostcards from a Dying WorldPFDW #2 2017 Interview with author Brian EvensonAuthor David Agranoff interviews award winning novelist Brian Evenson (The Last Days and Immobility) about the novel Feral. Evenson co-wrote the novel with the writer/ director of the Purge films Jame Demanaco. Evenson talks about the nitty-gritty of writing the novel and why it is NOT a Zombie novel.
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