Tell Me What You’re Reading No. 30: Michael Koryta: The Chill
Recorded in March 2020 just as we were learning about COVID - 19.
Apologies for the delayed November 21 podcast publication delay.
Michael Koryta, a New York Times-bestselling author of 14 novels, a novella, and multiple short stories, discusses The Chill, a horror/suspense/disaster/ supernatural novel which Michael wrote under the pen name, Scott Carson
The Chill is a story of the fictional town of Galesburg in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York, and about its residents who many years before, generations before, were displaced by the government when the properties where their homes were located were taken to create a reservoir, the Chillewaukee, to meet the water needs of New York City.
Their town, Galesburg, was devastated and the residents at the time have not forgotten. The story, save for the supernatural and certain of the more dramatic elements of Michael’s book, is similar to the story of the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, which I discussed on a podcast last year (Episode #16) with our friend, painter and printmaker, Kate McGloughlin.
The Chill, Scott Carlson (the pen name for Michael Koryta)
Reviews New York Journal of Books| Kirkus Reviews | Book Page | bookreporter.
What Michael is Reading
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | The Guardian | National Review| Los Angeles Review of Books | Vox| The Washington Post
Survivor Song, by Paul Tremblay
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | Rolling Stone | The Guardian
The Hoax, by Clifford irving
Review New York Magazine
Obit The New York Times
What Howard is Reading
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Saint X, by Alexis Schaitkin
Reviews The New York Times | Rolling Stone | Kirkus Reviews
Requiem for Ashokan, The Story Told in Landscape, by Kate McGloughlin
The Last of The Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir, by Bob Stueding
Review Hudson. Valley Magazine
Olive Free Library, The Ashokan Reservoir Collection
Working, Robert Caro
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | The Guardian | The Financial Times
Michael’s hometown bookstores
The Book Corner Bloomington, Indiana
Sherman’s Books, Camden Maine
