Episode #13 – Interlude/A Light To Starve By
It’s another interlude episode, which means two things: 1) we gave our brains a rest for a week and didn’t read too much, and 2) you get to listen to us ramble about random stuff. This time we get all meta and start the show talking about… the show. But after we break out of that, we reveal who won our Stranger Will giveaway, we hip you all to some sweet reads such as the new ezine Dirty Noir, and we do a mini-review of the short story A Light to Starve By by Axel Taiari. A short so worth it, Livius gives it a 5-star short story rating, and Robb goes 4.5.
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Mentioned
Dirty Noir
Rotten Leaves Magazine – making a comeback with a story by Stephen Graham Jones!
Axel Taiari’s short story A Light to Starve By – available on Amazon for $.99
The next book we’re reading is Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.
Check out the io9 article I mentioned in the episode.
Played
Local H – California Songs
Joshua Alan Doetsch said on June 10, 2011
Just downloaded “A Light to Starve By”
Dan said on June 11, 2011
great episode kids
Booked podcast said on June 11, 2011
Hope you enjoy it. We look forward to more by Axel Taiari
Mlaz said on June 12, 2011
It’s interesting to mention, when reading “A Light To Starve By,” you never realise Axel is a frog.
davidjameskeaton said on June 20, 2011
thanks for the Dirty Noir debut issue shout-out! proud to have a story under their banner (especially one with a cigarette being flicked dangerously near all that skin..)
Richard Thomas said on July 21, 2011
Axel is one of my neo-noir brothers. Love his work. He was totally right about LDP screwing up this anthology. We had about 12 stories, all of them twists on the classic vampire tale, nothing traditional. Then they added in some of their own people, all standard vampire stuff, weak writing. Really blew the collection. But the work in there by Axel, Chris Deal, Simon West-Bulford, Christopher Dwyer, Eddy Rathke, Caleb J. Ross, and Nik Korpon make it all worth picking up. My story “Transmogrify” was about vampires that feed off of negative energy, called psionic vampires or energivores. Was fun to write.