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Aug 9, 2026 1 hr 29 min

Episode 289: Jamal Hodge

from Eating the Fantastic Hosted by Scott Edelman

Break away from StokerCon for BBQ with Jamal Hodge as we discuss how winning a Stoker Award the previous night altered his ambitions, why Linda Addison is his favorite collaborator, how most things we think of as choices aren't, why he prefers Batman to Spider-Man, the reason the environment in his stories is not your friend, the way the living are controlled by the dead, how he always starts a project thinking it's one thing only to discover it's something else, what Mega Man has to do with him becoming a better writer, his favorite short story of all time, how 1984 made him realize what writing could do, the way poetry healed him, plus much more.

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