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by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
The works of Diana Wynne Jones, in order, one decade at a time, with Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
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- 3 weeks ago1h 42m
S3 Bonus Episode 1 - A Guide To The True State of Affairs in Dalemark
Truth is the fire that fetches thunder. A planned minisode on the Guide to Dalemark goes fully off the rails with the addition of early proto-Dalemark novella "The True State of Affairs," for a wide-ranging discussion on art, time, splendor, and a possible alternate vision for Diana Wynne Jones' career. Transcript available here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_6Jh55u0awKGjlhC6xMln_DLjJqmQy5f/view?usp=sharing], and we'll be back sometime next month with our next bonus episode on The Tough Guide to Fantasyland! NB: this episode contains discussion of child abuse and pedophilia.
- Mar 21, 20261h 46m
Dark Lord of Derkholm
""Why have we got six soppy men in a green haze hanging about?"" Tolkien and Disney, coffee and cotton, children and chattel, colonialism and capitalism, satire and sitcoms and sentimentality and as many jokes as can possibly fit in a three hundred page book. NB: This episode touches on prisoner abuse and sexual assualt. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1edDFMD9LbdsdrgTIflJCwfynukFnrTw5/view This brings us to the end of our nineties season, but we're planning couple bonus episodes over the next few months, so please stay tuned, and send any questions for our Q&A to eightdaysofdiana@gmail.com!
- Mar 7, 20262h 7m
Deep Secret
I thought of Uncle Ted's wobbly windows, and I began to think he must really, truly never look through them or anything else. Can't anyone look out there and see that you need not to think of everything in terms of what works or what they ought to do? Game dev and narrative expert Ariella Bouskila joins us for a discussion of bad colleagues, sick empires, beautiful boys, katabasis ducks, and the magic that can be found all around us if you have the eyes to see but can perhaps especially be found at a 1990s science fiction convention. NB: As much as we would like not to, this one inevitably contains some conversation about Neil Gaiman. Transcript available here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wyv9xbelK_z0thRyk0Z6Yz4VvOf05mJd/view?usp=sharing], and we'll be wrapping up our season in two weeks with Dark Lord of Derkholm!
- Feb 14, 20262h 17m
The Crown of Dalemark
Mitt at last came out with the real cause of his disappointment with the North. "They told me it was free here," he said. "They told me it was good." North and South, history-time and story-time, past kings and future kings, bicycle horses and evil-haunted trains and a really truly impressive array of bad dads all meet on Dalemark's green roads in the book it took Diana Wynne Jones fifteen years to write. Transcript available here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1phyvZI2xkRmbvjHfPN-pQ8Cxw2uhEewM/view?usp=sharing], and we'll be back in two weeks with Deep Secret!
- Jan 31, 20263h 38m
Hexwood
This wood is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there? It's a portal fantasy! It's a space opera! It's an office comedy! It's an epic romance! It's an exploration of parenthood! It's a metaphor for authorship and creative control! It's King Arthur! It's Siegfried! It's ten books in a trenchcoat playing 4D chess with each other, and we could probably talk about it for another four hours and still have more to say. Transcript available here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Wk6Ki4XZ7KCEoNTUnIEuX4yFiP33SCb/view?usp=sharing], and we'll be back in two weeks with Crown of Dalemark!
- Jan 17, 20261h 33m
A Sudden Wild Magic
The restraints of knowledge harmed this wild power. In order to use it, Zillah could not know what it was. It would only answer a being as untrammeled as itself. Time for elves, centaurs, demons, gods, witches, monks, princes, soulbonds, spaceships, sex, death, and an ever-present toddler, in undoubtedly the wildest book of Diana Wynne Jones' career to date. Transcript available here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTTKxVdf2If-PLSfi0NhJkuKC3EeQOUo/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104165161002412880034&rtpof=true&sd=true], and we'll be back in two weeks with Hexwood!
- Dec 20, 20251h 38m
Black Maria
What's the good of being civilized? That's what I want to know. It just means other people can break the rules and you can't. The gender dictatorship, the horror of conformity, the limits of word power, and how to stop your mother-in-law from living rent free in your brain. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gnTKOU9XOofGvXZR4CdpBVJI-qYp5UqO/view?usp=sharing And we'll be back in two weeks with A Sudden Wild Magic!
- Dec 6, 20251h 29m
Castle in the Air
'That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,' Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.' Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism, fairy tale and retail, big dreams, big crimes, and Diana Wynne Jones' empire of the imagination. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s-yK-BV-i6hpFtn-kpxpMUCdZe3Gr3Nf/view?usp=sharing And we'll be back in two weeks with Black Maria! (or Aunt Maria, depending on your location)
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