127: Short Stories
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The key moment from this podcast is when Brian investigates a short story idea of Nate's with a provocative title (Heather would prefer it not to be written). This is all in the context of discussing Flannery O'Connor's "dark grace." It turns out the guys have never discussed short stories, so prepare for an extravaganza on O'Connor, Hemingway, O. Henry, and more. A key question is "why are short stories dead as a genre?" They also get into specifics about how the best short fabulists write, which short stories could make feature films, and some key moments in favorite O'Connor stories -- and why her novels are poor. Also, Nate puts down a rumor that he would name "The Chestnut King" "The Conker King" were he British.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories or Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Met a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to Stories or Soul Food podcast with... |
| 0:22.6 | I still run into people who don't know the acronym really surprises me. |
| 0:25.8 | I thought everyone knew the acronym. |
| 0:28.1 | Done I realize not everyone knows our podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | I dispute that. |
| 0:33.0 | I think everybody knows our podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | Good. |
| 0:36.1 | Anyways, first opening question is, if you were British, would your book have been called the Conquer King instead of the Chestnut King? |
| 0:44.6 | No, it would not have been. |
| 0:47.5 | Nate always has a good answer for these types of questions. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, no, I think that's American misunderstanding that chestnut is not a word over |
| 0:56.6 | in England. That's what they think. Right. Well, they do call the, the actual big, green, spiky thing, |
| 1:03.1 | a conquer. So that's, that's not what the book the Chestnut King's about. So no, it would not be the |
| 1:08.1 | Conquer King. Although they didn't, they kind of have helmet. Didn't they use those as helmets? Yeah. So there are conquers. There's there's |
| 1:14.4 | conquer shells around. But, but no. Do you have any chestnut trees on your property? Are you |
| 1:22.8 | going to get some? I need to. I do not have any chestnut trees right now. I have a whole lot of alder and |
| 1:30.1 | fir, ponderosa. So you're staying pretty native right now. I'm entirely native at the moment. So the |
| 1:36.6 | only trees that are there are trees that were there so far. And one apple tree. Everything else that planet has died. |
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