Exploring The Unseen | Niles Reddick On Near-Death Experiences, UFOs, and Short Fiction

What do near-death experiences, UFO/UAPs, and short fiction have in common? This episode of Writers Drinking Whiskey features prolific short story writer Niles Reddick!

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say UFO!

Links:
Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ
Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Reddick’s website: https://nilesreddick.com/

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 and 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.

Niles Reddick’s newest collection Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories was released in August 2018 and has been nominated for the Story Prize, an IPPY, and a PEN-Malamud. His collection Road Kill Art and Other Oddities was a finalist for an Eppie award, his novel Lead Me Home was a national finalist for a ForeWord Award, a finalist in the Georgia Author of the Year award, and a nominee for an IPPY award. His novel Drifting Too Far from the Shore was nominated for a Foreword Award, a Pen-Faulkner award, and a Pulitzer. His work has appeared in seventeen collections and has been featured in over 300 literary magazines and journals in over 21 countries. He works for the University of Memphis-Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Michelle, and two children, Audrey and Nicholas.

About WDW:
And for our algo-overlords (please introduce us to your friends!)… Welcome to your literary happy hour, Writers Drinking Whiskey, the show where you share a drink with writers from around the globe, and you find more than your next read: you find the next AUTHOR you're going to love. Hosted by award-winning author William R. Hincy, the show takes booktube, authortube and booktok to another level with engaging, in-depth, and merrily irreverent conversations with today’s most interesting writers. And for our writers joining us, there are plenty of creative writing tips, fiction writing tricks, and poetry read by the poets.

Interested in being a guest? Have a great cocktail recipe and story to share? Fantastic! Contact WRH at [email protected].

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:33 Introducing Niles Reddick
00:01:46 Author Journey
00:10:01 Non-readers
00:16:13 Why short stories vs novels
00:19:44 What drew Niles to philosophy
00:24:36 Near Death Experiences
00:26:38 UFO rabbit hole
00:35:29 Children destroy the pretense of education
00:39:06 Eccentricity as Narrative Technique
00:44:12 Truth and Beauty in Fiction
00:49:21 Call of the short story
00:53:32 The future of writing
01:00:40 Shots - rapid-fire questions
01:11:50 Author Reading
01:23:42 Learn more about Niles Reddick
01:24:41 Last Call
01:25:30 Book Giveaway
01:28:57 Extra Shot audience question

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