“We don’t so much think about reality, we think reality.” –Frank Faulk View on Zencastr Joe and Mark talk to the accomplished radio documentary maker Frank Faulk about Mr. Joy and Woe himself, William Blake. In this far-ranging and deep conversation we discover the impact that Blake’s poetry and thought had on Frank’s approach to…
“When you write science fiction you feed from the work of many other fantastic people.” –Michèle Laframboise View on Zencastr Michèle found Sheri S. Tepper’s Grass totally engrossing; she especially enjoyed the well-drawn secondary characters, the planet itself, which was like a character, and how she managed multiple story lines. Tepper started to write later…
View on Zencastr This episode is a Re-Creative first, as Joe and Mark host two guests on the same show. Celu Amberstone and Paula Johanson are both writers and educators with a love of the natural world. They also both live in British Columbia. Paula’s inspiration is the map, particularly a map of Salt Spring…
View on Zencastr The Overstory is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that had quite a meaningful and moving impact on this week’s guest: the writer, naturalist and limnologist, Nina Munteanu. Nina considers herself an environmental activist and ecologist, and much of her fiction is written in a sub-genre of SF: eco-fiction. She’s also a lover…
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are flying without a guest this episode, as they discuss Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. They talk about Vonnegut’s life, in particular his experiences during World War II; Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of Bulge and then lived through the firebombing of Dresden. They talk about how this…
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark talk to author Robert Chazz Chute about his work and one of his greatest influences, well-known author and screenwriter William Goldman, focussing on Goldman’s novel The Color of Light. While many may recognize William Goldman’s name as the screenwriter who wrote the Oscar-winning scripts for Butch Cassidy and the…
Mark and Joe host Re-Creative, a podcast about creativity in which creative people from all walks of life talk about the art that inspires them. Joe continues the conversation by introducing Mark to Canadian author D.G. Valdron’s The Mermaid’s Tale, a dark, compelling, and utterly original fantasy.