X-R-A-Y SPECS: ZARDOZ (1974)
I knew I was going to love it when the head started to vomit guns. The tone felt like a Monty Python film. Is that a common comparison?
Rebecca Gransden
Rebecca Gransden lives on an island. She is published at Tangerine Press, Ligeia, Expat, BRUISER, and Fugitives & Futurists, among others. Her books include anemogram., Sea of Glass, Creepy Sheen, and Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group.
I’M JUST LIKE EVERY INSECURE WRITER: An Interview with Drew Buxton
There was this thing near San Antonio when I was in high school called the Elmendorf Beast that killed livestock. It turned out it was just a coyote with mange.
RAVI MANGLA on film with Rebecca Gransden
Video, broadly speaking, is the medium people interact with most on a daily basis, so I think contemporary fiction has some obligation to engage with it (if aiming to render the world as it exists).
J DAVID OSBORNE on film with Rebecca Gransden
I’ve always been confused about books that attempt to tell a straightforward, filmic plot through the written word. Isn’t that just a less-good version of a medium that already exists? Instead, why not adopt film’s self-confidence?
KARINA BUSH on film with Rebecca Gransden
One of my earliest memories is of jumping down all the stairs at once but it must’ve been a dream.
JAMIE GREFE on film with Rebecca Gransden
I grew up surrounded by woods, fields, an old mill, a Lutheran church, a cemetery just down the road, a local "party store" in the other direction, and farmland for miles and miles. It was glorious, really. And thank God for that party store.
JUSTIN ISIS on film with Rebecca Gransden
Writers who seem to want to write a commercial screenplay in prose strike me as the least interesting sort. The same goes for all attempts at translating cinematic terminology to prose.
SHAWN BERMAN on film with Rebecca Gransden
Have fun. Be yourself. All that live free Target store bullshit. But it’s true.
IRA RAT on film with Rebecca Gransden
Growing up surrounded by people constantly quoting the latest gross-out comedy or something like Star Wars it makes me feel a little dirty whenever I say a line from a movie.
ALIEN TO EVERY SITUATION: Steve Gergley interviewed by Rebecca Gransden
Remember, writing is about self-expression and emotional communication, so just focus on yourself and don’t worry about what anyone else is doing.