Welcome to the second episode of Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. Each month I’ll talk to an author about a book from their back catalog, then take a look at what they have coming up.
This time around, I talk with fantasy, horror, and young adult author Christopher Barzak about his haunted town novel The Gone Away Place.
In this episode:
• Having a book banned
• When the countryside is dark and creepy
• Sad ghosts and haunted towns
• The tornadoes that attacked Ohio
• Studying Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés and writing about community trauma
• The supernatural: do you believe?
• Having your work adapted: the novel One for Sorrow into the movie Jamie Marks Is Dead, and The Gone Away Place into a youth theater play
• Sophomore slumps and new audiences
• Recreating myths for a modern audience
• The return of the novella, and what killed it in the first place
• No guilty pleasures, no gatekeeping
• Guest co-host Craig Duster, owner of POP Art Books Culture in Boardman OH, talks out the benefits of Bookshop(dot)org
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