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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: P. Djèlà Clark on Why He Writes
Description: P. Djèlà Clark is the author of acclaimed and award-winning speculative fiction, including the much-loved Dead Djinn universe books, Ring Shout, and his most recent, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins.We speak with him about why he writes, how he sees speculative fiction as a genre, whether we can expect to see more Dead Djinn books, the origins of his acclaimed novella Ring Shout, his new book The Dead Cat Tail Assassins (Tordotcom, 2024), and much more.For our conversation about the author’s academic work in history, see our previous episode: “Dexter Gabriel: Slavery and Film, C...