{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9077c08c-f50e-4ce8-95d1-03fbe7cc72d1/11708412-19af-43c3-9ebc-57ef3921d53b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 370 Anna North","description":"<p>Coming Up…</p>\n<p>Show Sponsor: <a href=\"http://www.octagontech.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Octagon Technology</a></p>\n<p>Main Fiction: Lullaby, by Anna North</p>\n<p>Originally published in Robot Uprisings, edited by John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson</p>\n<p><b>I never wanted to move to my grandfather’s house in the first place. He died before I was born, but Mom talked all the time about what a genius he was, and that year I hated everything Mom liked. I was sixteen, my dad had died the year before, and I didn’t see why I should act like anything would ever be all right.</b></p>\n<p>Anna North graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a Teaching- Writing Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly , Glimmer Train, Nautilus , and in the anthology Robot Uprisings. Her nonfiction has appeared in Jezebel , BuzzFeed , and Salon, and she is now a staff editor at the New York Times. Her first novel, America...","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}