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19.48: Beginning With A Thrill
Season 19 Episode 48
As we wrap up our Close Reading Series, we’re shifting our focus towards helping you integrate what you’ve learned. For December, we’ll be releasing …
1 year, 3 months ago
19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)
Season 19 Episode 47
What does it mean to be building a career as an author in this day and age? We talk with author and speaker Andrew Buckley about everything from auth…
1 year, 4 months ago
19.47: Final Thoughts on Our Close Reading Series
Season 19 Episode 47
We reminisce on when we were on a writing retreat on a cruise in 2023, planning this close reading series. We have loved how this series grounded our…
1 year, 4 months ago
19.46: An Interview on Structure with N.K. Jemisin
Season 19 Episode 46
We had the pleasure of sitting down with N.K. Jemisin to talk about the structures and processes that helped create The Fifth Season. We talk about o…
1 year, 4 months ago
19.45: A Close Reading on Structure: Tying It All Together
Season 19 Episode 45
We’ve loved doing our close reading series throughout 2024, and The Fifth Season has been no different. Today, we’re reflecting on what we learned in…
1 year, 4 months ago
19.44: A Close Reading on Structure: Tradition and Innovation
Season 19 Episode 44
Today we’re zooming out to see where N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season fits into the canon of fantasy literature. How does Jemisin interact with magic,…
1 year, 4 months ago
19.43: A Close Reading on Structure: Parallelism and Inversion
Season 19 Episode 43
The structure of The Fifth Season features both mirroring and inversion. How do these structural shifts interact with the three POVs? On today’s epis…
1 year, 5 months ago
19.42: A Close Reading on Structure: Whose Perspective is it Anyways?
Season 19 Episode 43
Structure and POV (point of view) are often intertwined. In N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, we see this in the myriad perspective shifts. In this ep…
1 year, 5 months ago
19.41: A Close Reading on Structure: An Overview and Why Fifth Season
Season 19 Episode 41
Just a reminder that we will be talking about a lot of spoilers, so if you haven’t read The Fifth Season, go and do so now! As we dive into N.K. Jemi…
1 year, 5 months ago
19.40: An Interview on Tension with P. Djèlí Clark
Season 19 Episode 40
We sat down with the author of Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark, in order to wrap up our close reading of tension. We talked with Clark about his influence…
1 year, 5 months ago