S5 E6 Scott Hawkins: A Very “Normal” Imagination

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Confession: it’s fan-girl time. Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char and Blacktail , is one of those writers whose books make me want to corner him and ask, “How did you DO that?” He writes in the evenings after his day job and on weekends, and somehow the stories he’s made in those stolen hours are some of my absolute favorites. I’ve read both of his books, and I have a lot of questions. A lot of questions. This conversation is essentially me asking Scott how he makes the magic, while he calmly explains things that seem completely extraordinary to me as though they are perfectly normal. We also learn that Scott has had enough dogs over the years to make it sound like there…