A Meal of Thorns 54- SUNSHINE with Laura Zats

Literary agent and Print Run podcaster extraordinaire Laura Zats is on to talk about a novel that is the most urban fantasy you can imagine, and yet seems to run towards different traditions and ideas the closer you examine it—Robin McKinley’s award-winning but under-discussed Sunshine.

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• Guest: Laura Zats
• Title: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Christopher Buehlman’s Blacktongue Thief & Between Two Fires
• Peter Rock's Makeshift
• Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
• Totally not the heist film Oceans 11
• Newberry Honor & Mythopoeic Award
• Charlaine Harris’s The Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series
• Kim Harrison
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Twilight & Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• McKinley's Deerskin
• Editor Sharyn November & the Firebird imprint
• Charles De Lint, Anne Rice, Anita Blake
• "Contemporary Fantasy"
• Stephen Graham Jones
• Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires & Horrorstör
• Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla
• Matt Kirkland’s “Dracula Daily”
• RS Benedict’s “Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny”
• Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black
• Indra Das's The Devourers
• John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids
• The Print Run podcast
• Erik Hane's “The Fandom Strain”