In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Maria Mäkelä discuss a short story by Julio Cortázar, “Axolotl,” published in Spanish in 1956. Mäkelä will be reading the English translation by Paul Blackburn, published in Cortázar’s translated collection End of the Game and Other Stories, published in 1978. Mäkelä is Senior Lecturer in… Continue reading Episode 53: Jim Phelan & Maria Mäkelä — Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl”
Month: March 2026
Episode 52: Jim Phelan & Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen — Omar El Akkad’s “Factory Air”
In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen discuss Omar El Akkad’s “Factory Air,” first published in Guernica Magazine in March 2019 as part of their special issue on climate fiction. Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Rise of Science and Fiction at Aarhus… Continue reading Episode 52: Jim Phelan & Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen — Omar El Akkad’s “Factory Air”