Six months ago, on my Italian-language sword & sorcery cinema podcast, Chiodi Rossi, together with my co-host Germano, we did a special episode selecting our favorite Conan stories, and, after re-reading them, we discussed them. We are both writers, I am also a translator and Germano is an editor, so we used our passion for these stories and our professional experience to try and say something new about those stories.

The experiment was fun for us and, thankfully, also for our public, so we decided to do it again – and we are currently setting up an episode about Clark Ashton Smith, going about it just like the last time – we selected a bunch of stories we like, re-read them, and will chat about our impressions and insights on our podcast.

[incidentally, about ten days ago the largest Italian publisher released a second thousand-pages collection of CAS, everybody hereabouts is talking about it, so we will not be particularly original. On the other hand, this had been planned for two months now, and we won’t do a plug for the new book… it’s just a coincidence]

Just like I did for the Conan stories, I will prepare a series of English-language posts based on our chats, and publish them here.
We’ll be recording in our virtual studio during the weekend.
Let’s see what happens.

Once again, watch this space.