Author, Jen Craig. Photo by Felicity Jenkins.
First, special guest Jim Gauer, editor of Zerogram Press, describes encountering “Panthers and the Museum of Fire,” and feeling the need to publish it. Second, author Jen Craig discusses writing a short and expansive book that feels immense, rich and complex. She says she wanted to write a literary world that opens and keeps opening, with all possibilities true. An Australian writer makes her way into global literature with “Panthers and the Museum of Fire,” in which an ordinary world yields an extraordinary world.
Excerpt from “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” by Jen Craig.