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S2 Bonus Episode 3 - Q&A by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 4d

We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!

The first time round most of the catching-up you do is retrospective. The second time round you see it happening. In our final S2 bonus episode, we do a terrible job of not looking ahead to Hexwood a...

Bonus Episode 2.2 - DWJ Short Stories of the 70s and 80s.pdf

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 18d

transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/12RPK...

and please note that we've pushed our Q&A episode off to next week (the 25th) so if you've thoughts on the shorts you want to share, go ahead and send them!

S2 Bonus Episode 2 - DWJ Shorts of the 70s and 80s by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 18d

A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s!

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"She has tremendous talent, of course, or she couldn’t do it at all, but I do sometimes feel that she—well—she repeats herself. Put it like this: I think maybe Carol doesn't give herself a chance to b...

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 21d

thank you all so much for all the amazing questions you've sent in for our Q&A!!

FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 24d

that's correct! you are not the first person to ask about it so we we indeed probably should put that somewhere on our website

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 7

we're aiming to stay on the two-week schedule for the next two bonus episodes, so they should drop the 20th and the 4th!

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 7

thanks again for coming on, it was so much fun to have you!

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 7

absolutely delightful for sure!!

Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 6

that said, if you're looking for a reading list beyond DWJ herself, this is the episode for you: in addition to Farah's own book (linked below) we discussed fellow critics Catherine Butler, Teya Rosenberg and Martha Hixon, & authors Ruth Manning Sanders, Jo Walton, Hilary McKay, Anne Fine, and more!

British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting...

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 6

transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pUoT...

and in our next bonus episode, we'll be covering the short stories of the seventies and eighties, as collected in Unexpected Magic and Mixed Magics!

S2 Bonus Episode 1 - with Farah Mendlesohn.pdf

S2 Bonus Episode 1 - With Farah Mendlesohn by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 6

for the first of our S2 bonus episodes, we had the absolute joy of talking with critic and historian @effjayem.bsky.social for an hour and a half about historical context, book-hunger, and DWJ as a critical writer of critical texts

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The thing we must notice is frequently identified by what is not described or told or explained. In our first Season Two bonus episode, Farah Mendlesohn -- who literally wrote the book on Diana Wynne...

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Sep 6

I am putting this question in our doc for the Q&A episode!

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 18

it's a very beautiful dressing gown!!

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 17

apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Aug 17

The #HugoAward for Best Fancast goes to Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh & Rebecca Fraimow

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 17

thank you!!

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 17

thank you so much!!

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 17

thank you!!

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 17

thank you so much, it was absolutely an honor just to be included in such an incredible set!

S2 E8 - A Tale of Time City.pdf

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 16

transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1uPBZ...

and once again we have a few S2 bonus episodes up our sleeve; we'll be recording a Q&A on September 17th, so if you have thoughts or questions for us on the 80s please send them to us before then at [email protected]!

A Tale of Time City by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today we're wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City! a real butter-pie of a book: delicious ice cream froth on the outside, but full of surprisingly rich ideas once you actually bite into it

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Twenty Century refugee equipment. Case is open to show clothing and protective mask. A tale of one or two cities, three or four Vivians, four to fourteen badly translated old women, and at least two...

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of...

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 4

sajdlfkdj oh my god you really got the Decide What This Is About And Write A Second Verse Yourself experience

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 2

also, if you enjoyed this episode about Girls and Fairy Tales and Houses, definitely check out Freya's upcoming novella Cinder House, coming October of this year: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cinder House

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 2

transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_vxK...

and in two weeks we'll be formally wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City!

(though we've also got a few bonus episodes planned for the season break)

S2 E7 - Howl's Moving Castle.pdf

Howl's Moving Castle by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · Aug 2

through dangers untold (sleeping infants) and hardships unnumbered (three wildly incompatible timezones) we have managed to successfully kidnap brilliant romance expert @freyamarske.bsky.social to discuss DWJ's most romantic novel with us. Happy Howl's Moving Castle Day! zencastr.com/z/r0LaZYob

Her mind was such a blank that for a second, it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! The fantastic Freya Marske joins us for a discussion of John Donne, fairy tales, un...