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Up In The Air With Walter Kirn

by Levi Asher on Monday, February 1, 2010 06:10 pm
Being A Writer, Existential, Film, Interviews, Postmodernism, Technology

There's something wonderfully circular about the fact that Walter Kirn's novel Up In The Air, originally published in 2001, is now a $7.99 airport paperback. Like the hit film version directed by Jason Reitman and starring George Clooney, Kirn's novel affectionately skewers the modern corporate mentality that thrives on airplanes, in airports or in airport "edge city" chain hotels. Hollywood has brought a literary novel to its intended audience.

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Telling Our Stories: An Interview With Arlene Malinowski

by Michael Norris on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 08:25 pm
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A Talk With Bill "Tamper" Ectric

by Levi Asher on Monday, August 24, 2009 05:48 pm
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From Concept to Final Cut: An Interview with MT Cozzola

by Michael Norris on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:03 pm
Being A Writer, Film, Interviews

MT Cozzola is a Chicago-based screenwriter, playwright, and actress, and a native of Oak Park, Illinois (the hometown of Ernest Hemingway). She has written the screenplay for the film Eye of the Sandman, which will appear in theatres in Fall 2009. Eye of the Sandman is adapted from a short story entitled The Sandman by German writer E.T.A Hoffman. I spoke with MT at the Cafe Neo in the shadow of the El tracks on Lincoln Avenue.
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Jeff VanderMeer, The Hardest Working Man in Fantasy

by Bill Ectric on Friday, December 19, 2008 01:51 am
Fantasy, Interviews, Southern

In close proximity to primordial Florida swamps, branch-shrouded canopy roads, and Kafkaesque state capital intrigues, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are Tallahassee’s greatest unnatural resource.
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A Talk with Roxana Robinson

by Levi Asher on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 08:09 pm
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Offbeat with Andrew Gallix

by Jennifer Cuddy on Monday, June 2, 2008 02:32 pm
British, Fiction, Indie, Internet Culture, Interviews, Transgressive

A self conscious 'movement' calling itself 'the Offbeat Generation' has been emerging in the blogosphere. This generation got its name from Brit-lit Andrew Gallix, founder and editor of 3:AM magazine, who has been described by underground writer, artist and activist Stewart Home as "the Breton of the post-punk generation, the Rimbaud of the Net, Beckett to my Joyce, and Trocchi to my Beckett."
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Hettie Jones: Prisons and Poets

by Bill Ectric on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 06:10 pm
Beat Generation, Interviews, Poetry, Women

Branching Out, a joint project of Poets House and the Poetry Society of America, with funding from the National Endowment for Humanities, presents Hettie Jones on the Beat Poets, Tuesday, May 6 @ 6:00 PM.
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Eight Questions With Linda Plaisted

by Jamelah Earle on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 02:12 pm
Being A Writer, Interviews, Visual Art
And now for something completely different ...

October
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A Philosophical Chat with James Morrow

by Bill Ectric on Monday, May 5, 2008 10:05 pm
Existential, Interviews, Postmodernism, Science Fiction
As teenagers, James Morrow and his friends made short 8mm movies based on Coleridge and Poe stories. Morrow went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University, then published his first novel, The Wine of Violence, in 1981.
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