Inspiring dread and confronting evil | Laughter and riveting conversation with author T.D. Johnston

What is the nature of evil? Is there such things as Good and Evil, or are matters of good and evil simply constructs of man. Join us for a substantial conversation with returning guest, author T.D. Johnston, as we discuss hopelessness, failure, risks, and still manage to have a great time.

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “evil!”

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Bios:
William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

T.D. Johnston won the 2017 International Book Award for Best Short Fiction for his debut collection, Friday Afternoon and Other Stories. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals. The editor of the Short Story America anthology series of contemporary short stories, he lives in Jacksonville, Florida and Beaufort, South Carolina with his wife, Stacey, daughters Brooke and Taylor, and son Nick.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:08 Introducing author T.D. Johnston
00:13:16 The Beast of Busco
00:17:34 Writing short stories and transitioning to novels
00:26:48 Economy of words
00:31:07 Handling criticism of your writing
00:58:04 Big risks
01:05:28 Failures
01:11:26 Do you choose the genre or does the genre choose you
01:27:19 On evil
01:33:42 How do you write dread
01:44:47 The muses
01:49:54 Shots - rapid fire questions
02:11:16 Author reading
02:27:24 Last Call
02:30:11 Extra shot

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