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  1. The art of writing recipes

    Two writers tell us what it takes to create a recipe anyone can follow. Not all celebrity chefs cut the mustard.

    So you have people coming over you want to impress. You dig into your books or online for that new perfect dish, shop for the ingredients, follow the recipe religiously, but when you pull it out of the oven it’s a disaster.

    It can’t be you, we know that, so how did the recipe get it so wrong?

    There’s art and skill in writing a recipe that can be replicated in the home kitchen, but not all recipe writers have got what it takes.

    Cook and writer, Kate McGhie owns something like six and half thousand recipe books, she’s won international awards for her own publications, and she knows a thing or two about recipe success and failure.

    Liz Harfull is in the process of writing a sequel to her immensely popular Blue Ribbon Cookbook - a collection of recipes awarded the blue ribbon first prize in the cooking sections of country shows.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/the-art-of-writing-recipes/4203284

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  2. Jon Ronson on Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut is a serious writer who holds a special place in the hearts of teenagers. Jon Ronson got hooked on Vonnegut when he was 15. For his long train rides from Cardiff, Wales, to look at colleges, Ronson packed a bag with Vonnegut’s novels, including Slaughterhouse Five. “It was like I was on the cusp of a new life,” he remembers. “I was about to go out into the world and Vonnegut was my companion.”

    Ronson grew up to write journalism that creatively investigates weirdness of various flavors — from alien abductions to neo-Nazi gatherings. His bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats (made into a movie with George Clooney) is about US military programs that tried to exploit paranormal powers. Vonnegut “made me very much want to be a writer,” Ronson says. At the same time, ”because he puts himself in his books and he always portrays himself as quite miserable, I thought ‘God, I don’t want to be a writer if that’s your life, all alone in a room, chain-smoking.’”

    “When I look back on like everything I’ve written time and again it’s very Vonnegut-ish. Because every good story that I write is about people trying to do good in a difficult, crazy, absurd world.”

    http://www.studio360.org/2012/dec/07/aha-moment-jon-ronson-on-kurt-vonnegut/

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  3. Interview: Robin Sloan, Author of ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’ : NPR

    Author Robin Sloan has written short stories and worked for Twitter. His new book brings those two worlds together to argue that embracing digital culture doesn’t mean you have to give up the treasured books —€” and values —€” of the past.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162233599/mr-penumbra-bridges-the-digital-divide

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  4. Longform Podcast Episode 5: Paul Ford

    Aaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford.

    “You don’t really read a newspaper to preserve journalism, or save great journalism, or to keep the newspaper going. You read it because it gives you a sense of power or control over the environment that you’re in, and actually sort of helps you define what your personal territory is, and what the things are that matter for you. As long as products serve that need—as long as books allow you to explore spaces that it’s otherwise really hard for you to explore and so on—I think people will continue to read them.”

    http://longformpodcast.tumblr.com/post/30941148016/paul-ford

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  5. ‘Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit’: A Reminder To Tolkien Fans Of Their First Love : NPR

    Fans of Middle Earth tend to fall in love with The Hobbit as children, says self-described "Tolkien professor" Corey Olsen. But once they move on to The Lord of the Rings, they never come back. That’s a great shame, he says, so he’s written his own book to honor the classic fantasy novel.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/21/163002962/a-reminder-to-tolkien-fans-of-their-first-love

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  6. Guardian book club: Iain M Banks on Use of Weapons

    As the latest novel in the Culture series hits the bookshops, we look at the third of Iain M Banks’s best-selling SF novels, The Use of Weapons. Known for writing in two separate strands – science fiction and literary novels – Banks explains how the two inspired each other, with the Culture emerging from his work on the first draft of his debut novel, The Wasp Factory.

    He also explains the role that a misunderstanding of structuralism played in the construction of his fictional multiverse, and reveals that the dual chronology he uses in the novel was not in fact his idea at all …

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  7. Brian Eno Interviewed on KPFA’s Ode to Gravity, 1980, Reel 1 (54:30)

    Charles Amirkhanian and Brian Eno discuss Phonetic Poetry, how Brian writes his lyrics, and the spirit of inquisitiveness at KPFA Radio on Saturday February 2, 1980. Listen to some of Brian Enos pieces; After the Heat, Everything Merges With the Night, Another Green World, Spirits Drifting and sections of other pieces. Brian Eno also discusses the artist Peter Schmidt and their work on the Oblique Strategies Cards, being a producer, Process vs Product and looping. Reel I ends with some thoughts on Steve Reich and his music.

    http://ubu.com/sound/eno.html

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  8. AISFP 162 – Michael Moorcock —€” Adventures in SciFi Publishing

    Grand Master Michael Moorcock joins us to discuss several new projects, including his Dr. Who novel Coming Of The Terraphiles. He discusses how the opportunity to write for Who came about, BBC not allowing cigar smoking lizards in the manuscript, putting a toaster on the TARDIS, the role of the Absurd in Dr. Who, his favorite Doctor, his new collection of essays, and Chris Roberson’s fine Elric comic book.

    http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/2012/02/aisfp-162-michael-moorcock/

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  9. AISFP 98:€“ Paolo Bacigalupi —€” Adventures in SciFi Publishing

    Like the true champion he is, recent Hugo-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi fights through respiratory issues to chat with us about the Campbell Conference, his collaboration with Tobias Buckell on the audible.com novella The Alchemist and The Executioness, and his YA novel Ship Breaker. Off course, we also discuss how The Windup Girl, arguably the greatest debut science fiction novel, came to be. You won’t want to miss Paolo’s account of the starts and stops he took to become a published author.

    http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/2010/09/aisfp-98-%E2%80%93-paolo-bacigalupi/

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  10. AISFP 174 – Adam Christopher — Adventures in SciFi Publishing

    Adam Christopher, author of Empire State and the new Seven Wonders, joins us to discuss his love for superheroes, his literary inspirations, science fiction period pieces and why superhero literature has not kept pace with superhero film.

    http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/2012/08/aisfp-174-adam-christopher/

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