Episode Seven: Literary Fanfiction

This episode, Kyle and Emily talk about "literary fanfiction": the sub-genre of books by established authors that inhabit the world of older works of literature. We couldn't find a good term to refer to these sorts of books, but think of works like Ahab's Wife or Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead.

Plus, they talk about the Suvudu cage match and the challenges of writing fanfiction.

Episode Breakdown:

• 0:00 – 14:00: What We're Reading
• 14:00 – 35:00: Suvudu Cage Match
• 35:00 - 1:00:00: "Literary Fanfiction"

What Emily's Reading:

• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

What Kyle's Reading:

• Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
• The Bullseye Interview with Nick Hornby

Other Works that We Discuss:

For all the cage-match books and characters we discussed, please refer to Suvudu's web site. And here's a link to the cage match post that Kyle wrote. 

• Ahab's Wife by Sena Naslud
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Q-Squared by Peter David
• The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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