Christopher Barzak Talks The Gone Away Place

Host Eric Harper talks with fantasy, horror, and Young Adult author Christopher Barzak about his haunted town novel The Gone Away Place.

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In this episode:
• Having a book banned
• When the countryside is dark and creepy
• Sad ghosts and haunted towns
• The tornadoes that attacked Ohio
• Studying Clarissa Pinkola Estes and writing about community trauma
• The supernatural: do you believe?
• Having your work adapted: the novel One for Sorrow into the movie Jamie Marks Is Dead, and The Gone Away Place into a youth theater play
• Sophomore slumps and new audiences
• Recreating myths for a modern audience
• No guilty pleasures, no gatekeeping