The Functional Nerds Podcast

Episode 625-With Sarah Pinsker


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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Sarah Pinsker, author of Haunt Sweet Home.

About Haunt Sweet Home: When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she’s truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.

About Sarah Pinsker: Sarah Pinsker is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, two novels, and one collection. Her work has won four Nebula Awards (Best Novel, A Song For A New Day; Best Novelette, “Our Lady of the Open Road,” Best Novelette, “Two Truths And A Lie,” Best Short Story, “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather,”), two Hugo Awards (“Two Truths And a Lie” and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”), the Philip K Dick Award, the Locus Award, the Eugie Foster Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for numerous Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fiction has been published translated into almost a dozen languages and published in magazines including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny and in many anthologies and year’s bests.

This week’s picks:

  • Sarah #1: Lone Woman by Victor LaValle
  • Sarah #2: Doctor Who (BBC/Disney+)
  • Sarah #3: American Visionary Art Museum – Baltimore
  • Tracy #1: Something to Hold by Sarah Pinsker
  • Tracy #2: X-Men ’97 (Disney+)’
  • Patrick #1: Let It Be (Disney+)
  • Patrick #2: Jim Henson: Idea Man
  • Links:

    • Sarah Pinsker
    • Tracy Townsend on the network formerly known as Twitter
    • Patrick Hester on the network formerly known as Twitter
    • The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
    • © 2024 Patrick Hester

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