Chow down on cannoli with author Bob Proehl as we discuss how it really all began for him with poetry, the way giving a non-comics reader <em>Watchmen</em> for their first comic is like giving a non-novel reader <em>Ulysses</em> as their first novel, why discovering <em>Sandman</em> was a lifesaver, the reason the Flying Burrito Brothers 1968 debut album <em>The Gilded Palace of Sin</em> matters so much to him, why he had a case of Imposter Syndrome over his first book and how he survived it, the reasons he's so offended by <em>The Big Bang Theory</em>, what he meant when he said "I actually like boring books," his love for <em>The X-Files</em>, <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>, and the <em>X-Men</em>, whether it's hard to get a beer in New York at six o'clock in the morning, why he wasn't disappointed in the <em>Lost</em> finale, and much more.
Join Elsa Sjunneson-Henry for lunch in Little Italy as we discuss her roller coaster of emotions the night she won a Hugo Award earlier this year during the Dublin Worldcon, how that editorial gig increased her empathy, the way writing roleplaying games and being a Sherlock Holmes nerd taught her about world-building and led to her first professional fiction sales, the dinosaur-themed Twitter feed that gave birth to her most recently published short story, the novel she's working on which she describes as <em>The Conjuring</em> meets <em>The Stand</em>, her expertise in obscenity law and fascination with the history of burlesque, why she felt the <em>Bird Box</em> novel handled blindness better than the movie, her background in competitive improv and the way that helped her within science fiction, advice on how not to let Internet trolls get you down, and much more.