Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

Rick Kleiffel is a unique interviewing voice in the current literary landscape. He understands and explores genre and literary fiction in a single sweep, yet disparages neither. He's a great interviewer and manages to be both insightful without resorting to snobbery. I look forward to every episode. As a listener and fiction writer, it makes me glad to see there is good coverage coming from this show!

I can't stand the opening and closing tags and the context-free quotes offered as a podcast descrioption are frustrating as hell, but the content is very good. Rick gets a wide variety of writers to talk about their craft in an engaging and often entertaining way. Skip the first 25 seconds and you'll get a fine conversation. Well worth the download.

Rick Kleffel's interview with William Gibson is far and away the best of all the "Spook Country" related podcasts out there right now. Really brilliant stuff.

Very entertaining and insightful, Rick Kleffel's Agony Column podcast, in my opinion, sits alongside Michael Silverblatt's Bookworm podcast for readers of literary fiction looking for more insight into writers' views of their own work; however this podcast has the added bonus of venturing further into the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror genres. In catching up on the back catalog, I've listened to over 100 episodes in the last few weeks.