Spear in New York Times and Beyond the Trope

Nicola Griffith

May 31

When Hild came out I posted often about various news and updates, and pulled together pages of links to some of the best (or most interesting—not always the same thing) reviews, interviews, essays and other miscellanea. I've been pretty lax about that with Spear. At some point I'll pull together some of the more interesting things—video of events, podcasts, reviews—and build a page for it.

For now, though, here are a couple of things from over the holiday weekend.

First, Spear was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review as part of the Summer Reading issue.

Reading it feels like seeing the contours of a landscape rise out of mist: Everything up close is clear, while the surroundings are softened, dimmed, but undeniably present. Peretur's journey is a pleasure to follow, a lovely flexing of Griffith's strengths in short form.

Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times Book Review

And the interview I did for Beyond the Trope podcast is out.

Click here to listen to an audio clip.

Some podcasts can be weirdly trivial, but—as with X-Ray Vision and Coode Street and Intermultiversal—I really enjoyed this one. It's fairly short, less than half an hour, and (wonder of wonders!) I'm actually pretty coherent—I even talk in whole paragraphs!—about writing Spear, how and why I sometimes write short, sometimes long, and how it all comes down to the kind of question I'm trying to answer.

And of course at some point I'll update the blog post about Spear's furred, feathered, and fluttery friends and turn that into a page.

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