Ann VanderMeer’s First Long Interview
Jeff VanderMeer • December 27th, 2007 @ 11:24 am • Culture
My wife Ann has a long interview here in which she talks about how she got the Weird Tales fiction editor gig, recommends books, etc. Entirely appropriate, I think, to post with so many Weird Tales writers blogging here over the past few weeks.
Jeff
December 27, 2007 at 12:29 pm
That’s a great interview. It was fascinating to get a glimpse in what editing Weird Tales is like.
December 27, 2007 at 1:56 pm
And of course, once I finished the interview, I thought of several MORE books I should have mentioned, such as Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey and Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
December 27, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Yeah, as I was reading the reading list I thought there were a number of books Jeanie would be interested in. So I printed the interview for her. I’ll probably be on a book run with *my* Borders gift card very soon… :D Thanks Ann, great interview!
Dave
December 27, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Loved the reading list!
December 27, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Ditto the upraised thumbs for your recommendations. One, Memory’s Tailor, sounded perfect for a friend, so I clicked straight from your interview to ordering it.
December 27, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Methinks Ann doesn’t sleep. Ever.
There aren’t enough hours in the day for a full time job, all that reading, and sleep.
December 28, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Ann, I loved The Chess Garden–it’s so good to see it on someone else’s list. I recommended it to a book group I belonged to, and they didn’t like it (a lesson in knowing your group). But I still think of it as magical, and deeply melancholy, and wonderful. That teacup of smoke–ah.
Really vivid interview, a pleasure to read.
December 28, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Oh, man, everyone we’ve ever recommended it to loved it. I think it’s a fantastic book. Made me cry, which doesn’t happen often.
JV
December 29, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Good interview, Ann, and good recommendations (although I was stunned, happily so, to find Brittle Innings among your listings), many of which, if indeed not all of them previously unread, I hope to read one day. I’m also boggled by the amount of work you (and Jeff) both get accomplished. (In fact, I’m even halfway considering starting my own day with, uh, four eggs.) In any event, I’m looking forward to future issues of Weird Tales and greatly enjoyed the most recent one to come through my mailbox.