160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Special guest Carolyn Cohagan, author of the Time Zero trilogy and founder of the creative writing workshop Girls with Pens, joins Jacke for a discussion of her writing process, her origins in standup comedy and theater, and her early love for the fiction of Ray Bradbury (and her special appreciation for his short story "All Summer in a Day"). For another look at a twentieth-century giant who broke down genre barriers, try Episode 141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome). Love pulp fiction? Hear about the efforts of a contemporary editor to bring back the heyday of the genre, including classic twentieth-century prose and beautiful painted covers, in Episode 140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai). Writing a little yourself? Hear the interview that made Carolyn run out to buy the book that passes along the secrets of fiction in Episode 133 - The Hidden Machinery (with Margot Livesey). Support the show at patreon.com/literature. Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	A lot of people ask me about the Genesis of Fahrenheit 451.
0:14.6	What was I up to?
0:15.6	Where did I live?
0:16.7	What was I doing?
0:18.2	Well, I lived in Venice, California with my wife.
0:21.3	And a little $30 a month apartment. We had no money and my wife got
0:27.2	pregnant and I went to New York and managed to find enough money to finance us
0:32.3	for a while.
0:33.0	But in the meantime I was writing short stories.
0:36.0	I wrote a story called The Pedestrian,
0:38.0	because I had an encounter with a policeman one night
0:41.0	who asked me what I was doing. I was walking with a friend and I said the
0:46.0	policeman I'm putting one foot after the other which was the wrong answer you know
0:51.1	very suspicious being a pedestrian walking and because I looked at the
0:55.5	sidewalks this way and that and there's nobody except me and my friend. So the
1:01.0	policeman reprimanded me and I promised never to walk again and I went home in a rage and I wrote the short story I called the pedestrian and it was published finally and then I took the pedestrian off her walk one night in another story and he turned the corner and he bumps into a little girl named Clarice McLellen and she snips the air and she says to him I know who you are.
1:25.6	You're the fireman. You're the man that burns books and nine days later Fahrenheit
1:30.6	451 was done.
1:31.8	Mm. That was author Ray Bradbury talking about the genesis of his classic fantasy novel,
1:37.0	Fahrenheit 451, which imagines a world where firemen start fires
1:42.0	and books are freely burned. We'll be talking to a fan of
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