For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, writer Wm Henry Morris joins me for a conversation about Sofia Samatar’s 2017 story collection Tender. The stories in this collection range from fairy tale and folklore to dystopian sci-fi to (almost) contemporary realism, but all have in common Samatar’s impeccable prose, attention to detail, and exceptional readership.

(Conversation recorded December 19, 2020)

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Show Notes:

• Sofia Samatar - Tender
• Wm Henry Morris
• Sofia Samatar - A Stranger in Olondria
• Sofia Samatar - The Winged Histories
• Sofia Samatar - “The Red Thread”
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Franz Kafka
• Karl Ove Knausgård
• Sofia Samatar - “Selkie Stories Are For Losers”
• Selkie
• Kat Howard
• Amal El-Mohtar
• Theodora Goss
• Sofia Samatar - “Honey Bear”
• Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon
• Nevil Shute - On the Beach
• Sofia Samatar - “A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals”
• E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Sofia Samatar - “Meet Me in Iram”
• Iram of the Pillars
• Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
• Sofia Samatar - “Tender”
• Radium Girls
• Wm Henry Morris - “Ghosts of Salt and Spirit”
• Sofia Samatar - “How to Get Back to the Forest”
• Sofia Samatar - “An Account of the Land of Witches”
• Sofia Samatar - “The Closest Thing to Animals”
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 113: Matthew Salesses
• Christian Petzhold
• Barbara (2012 film)
• Phoenix (2014 film)
• Transit (2018 film)
• Anna Seghers - Transit

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo