Author Interviews

Interviews with Sayaka Murata / 村田沙耶香 available in English

(Work in progress!)

• Aliens and Alienation: The Taboo-Challenging Worlds of "Earthlings Author Murata Sayaka (Nov. 4, 2020)
• Sayaka Murata Interview: A Creature in My Own Right (Nov. 30, 2020)
• "Normal"--What?: In Conversation with Sayaka Murata. Author of 'Convenience Store Woman' in Toronto (Mar. 22, 2019)

Interviews with Tamsyn Muir

(There are very many.)

• Tamsyn Muir: To Live Unworried (Feb. 24, 2011)
• Nightmare Magazine Author Spotlight: Tamsyn Muir (Jan. 2013)
• How Japanese RPGs Inspired A New Generation Of Fantasy Authors (Jul. 17, 2019)
• An Interview with Tamsyn Muir (Aug. 28, 2019)
• Tamsyn Muir's Goony Fun 'Gideon The Ninth' Takes Sci-Fi Fantasy Prose Into New Territory (Sept. 10, 2019)
• Tamsyn Muir: The gay goth space opera of our dreams (Sept. 10, 2019)
• Transcript: Tamsyn Muir and Keah Brown (Sept. 11, 2019)
• What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn't (Oct. 1, 2019)
• Q&A: Tamsyn Muir, Author of 'Gideon The Ninth' (Oct. 4, 2019)
• Tamsyn Muir Interview: "There is a lot of blood on my dance floor." (Feb. 22, 2020) -- you'll need the Wayback Machine for this one
• Tamsyn Muir: Blood Words" (Apr. 13, 2020) -- includes substantial excepts, but unfortunately it seems that reading the full interview will require buying the April 2020 issue of Locus
• The Horror of it All! A Conversation with Tamsyn Muir (May 2020)
• Giden, Harrow, and Mr Bones' Wild Ride: Tamsyn Muir on Writing, Necromancy, and Fanfic (Aug. 7, 2020) -- links to the full Reddit AMA from which the excerpts are taken
• The Butch Lesbian Sci-Fi Aesthetic: A Conversation With Tamsyn Muir (Oct. 21, 2020)
• How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera (Feb. 5, 2021)
• Q&A with Tamsyn Muir! (Apr. 12, 2021)
• Why Tamsyn Muir turned her fantasy trilogy into a quartet halfway through (Jan. 27, 2022)
• LJ Talks to Tamsyn Muir, Author of 'Nona the Ninth' (Jul. 6, 2022)
• Tamsyn Muir interview about TLT in Celsius 232 (Jul. 2022) -- a transcript of the talk including translation of the Spanish - see also the Youtube video itself here
• tumblr Writer Spotlight: Tamsyn Muir (Aug. 23, 2022)
• Nona the Ninth Author Tamsyn Muir Talks Writing "Rude" and "Dislikable" Women (Sept. 9, 2022)
• Tamsyn Muir on Lyctorhood as Genderfuckery and Greasy Bible Study in Nona the Ninth (Sept. 13, 2022)
• Unlocking the Tomb: An Interview with Tamsyn Muir (Sept. 21, 2022)
• All the Ways Your Liver Will Betray You with Tamsyn Muir (Oct. 6, 2022) -- can also see other typical podcast locations for this one
• The Coode Street Podcast, Episode 598: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Tamsyn Muir (Dec. 4, 2022) -- again can also use other podcast sources
• Pop Closer: Interview with Tamsyn Muir (Jan. 21, 2023)
• This American Life, 811: The One Place I Can't Go (Sept. 29, 2023)

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