Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 388 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Brian Evenson.

He's the author of such novels as The Warren, Immobility,

and Last Days, and Short Story Collections

such as a Collapse of horses and wind eye.

He also writes books under the name B. K. Evanston

including the media tie-in novels aliens no exit and dead space martyr.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new short story collection song for the unraveling of the world.

We'll also be talking about how he quit teaching at Brigham Young University in 1995 when they told him that he had to stop writing horror.

And now here's our review with Brian Evanson.

All right, so we're here with Brian Evanson. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Good to be here.

Okay, and so your new book is a short story collection called Song for the Unravelling of the World. So how would you say this book is a short story collection called Song for the Unraffling of the World.

So how would you say this book is similar to or different from your previous collections?

Well I think that you know a lot of my collections are kind of on a boundary between literature and genre and that's the case in this book as well but I think it kind of moves even more into genre in some ways.

So there's a lot of stories that have a science fictional element. There's a lot of stories with a horror element to them and you know kind of altogether they they're still literary stories but they they I try to take the best of genre and the best of literature.

And so my previous collections, as I've said,

have done that as well, but I just think

this is a little more pointed in that direction.

Yeah, this is the first book if you were as I'd read.

And I was actually surprised how many of the stories

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