# Episode 723: Molly Tanzer and the Nature of Art

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Podcast: [The Coode Street Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-coode-street-podcast-1075003)
Published: 2026-05-24T01:49:45+00:00
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Jonathan and Gary are delighted to welcome the wonderful Molly Tanzer, whose new novella And Side by Side They Wander is just out this week. Although it involves apparently benign alien visitors, a post-apocalyptic post-United States, corporate overreach, and a fair bit of space opera, the novella's main focus is art, who really owns it, how we interact with it, and whether even a molecularly exact reproduction is ever the same as the original. Molly also shares with us what it's like to revisit the world of C.L. Moore's classic pulp hero Jirel of Joiry in a new series of stories, and what she has planned for the future. As always, it's a wide-ranging discussion which at times almost gets downright philosophical.

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