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b'Much of speculative literature focuses on superheroes and Chosen Ones. But what about ordinary people or flawed people who don’t\\xa0save the world? Do they matter?
\\nSci-fi/fantasy author JR Dawson joins us to talk about why she writes about ordinary people, and how privilege and inequality warp our idea of whose story deserves to be told. She also talks about being a Midwestern writer, her favorite literary losers and that time Hans Christian Andersen got really weird with Charles Dickens’ family.
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\\nRecommended Reading:
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\\n* JR Dawson’s Twitter account
\\n* JR Dawson’s Patreon
\\n* Virginia Woolf, If Shakespeare Had a Sister
\\n* President Lincoln’s Connection to Nebraska
\\n* The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
\\n* Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back
\\n* That time Hans Christian Andersen got really weird with Charles Dickens’ son
\\n* Charles Dickens liked looking at dead people
\\n* Lore Olympus
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\\nAbout Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.\\xa0Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing\\xa0Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.\\xa0Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com.\\xa0Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.
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