PFDW#34: Interview With P.Djeli Clark author of Ring Shout

In this episode of Postcards, I have a chat with author P.Djeli Clark the author of one of my favorite books of last year Ring Shout.  Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon,  and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black  God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of  his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago.   Ring Shout is an amazing piece of work from a singular voice. No one else on this planet could write this story and those are the best stories always. Ring Shout is a dark fantasy that is not only in conversation with history but confronting it.  This novel is a cutting piece of commentary that comes out a century after its events and sadly doesn’t feel distant.   This conversation is about Clark as a writer, and a historian but any discussion of a novel like Ring Shout will be deep. The history of the  Klan, the movements against them but both historical and fictional.  Balance of history, mythology, and much more.    @pdjeliclark   pdjeliclark.com •You can find my books here:     Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff   Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW      •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff   Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor  Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/