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Episode 22: In which Jedediah Berry and John Crowley discuss John’s new edition of The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae. The book is illustrated throughout by carpentrix-artist Theo Fadel, and designed by Jacob McMurray. Subscribe to the Small Beer podcast using iTunes or the service of […] The post Small Beer Podcast 22: John Crowley & Jedediah Berry & The Chemical Wedding first appeared on Small Beer Press.

Being the internet age, I’ve learned as much about Mary Rickert from her Facebook feed as I have from the biography on her website. These are the facts I am confident are true: Mary Rickert dislikes the Distraction Culture of smartphones and loves flowers, she is open to new adventures and has spent many hours […] The post Small Beer Podcast 21: Mary Rickert’s “Cold Fires” first appeared on Small Beer Press.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 is a strange and extremely personal cultivation. Guest edited by Michael J. Deluca, it themes and focuses and ponders on our ecological future in a way that doesn’t seem to limit the writing at all. LCRW No. 33 is about people and relationships. It is also about this new […] The post Small Beer Podcast 20: Carmen Maria Machado’s “I Bury Myself” first appeared on Small Beer Press.

Nathan Ballingrud is one of those authors who should be far better known. Hopefully, this collection will do something to bridge that particular gap. I don’t write fan letters and I don’t read stories that sometimes fall across the border into grotesque, but then Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters came along. Immediately after I […] The post Small Beer Podcast 19: Nathan Ballingrud’s “You Go Where It Takes You” first appeared on Small Beer Press.

Old friends never go out of style. Yet, somehow, too often they manage to slip into the dusty corners of our lives. Each time one pops up and disrupts my helter skelter schedule, I feel a frisson of rediscovery. “Yes, this is why we remember each other. This really is how it used to be.” […] The post Small Beer Podcast 18: Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals” & Cider first appeared on Small Beer Press.