Coffee Break No. 10 – Paolo Bacigalupi on AuthorsatGoogle

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Paolo Bacigalupi reveals the secrets of his success: Voodoo and liquor. Just kidding, but he does provide insights into where he gets his story ideas and what he wants his stories to do. Bacigalupi also reads from two of his short stories. It’s about an hour, but it’s well worth the viewing.

For what it’s worth, I was glad I hung in there until the end to hear Bacigalupi’s take on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Basically he said that we’re all indignant at BP’s failure, but that we were just going to burn that same oil and pollute the air through our tailpipe instead of coating the Gulf Coast with crude oil.

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