Last week I had the great pleasure of chatting with Bryan Aiello, the author of Compounded Interest, for his podcast, “Origin: Stories on Creativity.” He let me go on at length about the relationship between science and magic in the Sidhe Diaries, the mental trauma of being an unwilling superhero, my philosophy of independent publishing, “failing forward” as a writer, and a lot of books written by great writers. Video below; links to his work, mine, and the books we discussed below that.
Links to Bryan’s Work
Links to My Work
Other Books We Discussed
- Andy Weir – The Martian, The Egg
- George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
- Stephen King – Under the Dome
- Mary Doria Russell – The Sparrow & Children of God
- Salman Rushdie – Step Across This Line, Midnight’s Children, Haroun & the Sea of Stories, Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights
- Nancy Milford – Savage Beauty
- Mary Roach – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird
