Meet Lewis Shiner
Monday, December 07 2009
by Frank Stasio and Lindsay Thomas
Writer Lewis Shiner has had work released by nearly all the big New York publishing houses, including Bantam, Doubleday and Simon & Schuster. But his latest book, a collection of his short fiction from the last 30 years, is just out from Subterranean Press, a small company based in Michigan. Shiner says there's a lot to be said for working with a small press, especially for an author who wants a hand in every part of the creative process, from the font type to the cover art. He joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his long journey to becoming a successful science fiction and mystery writer, why literary "success" doesn't mean he can quit his day job at IBM and the tumultuous youth that influenced his career.
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