HERO WORSHIP LEADS TO CULTS: An Interview with Brad Neely
January 26, 2024
I wanted to highlight how that’s an impossible fantasy in biographies of someone in the past. That said, I wanted to be silly with the title.
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Interviews & Reviews
X-R-A-Y SPECS: Toys (1992)
January 19, 2024
In fact, my experience watching Popeye is what this film most reminded me of: the feeling of alarm, then dismay, and then the slow death of acceptance.
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LENGTH OR GIRTH OR BOTH: An Interview with Gwen E. Kirby
January 12, 2024
As for the demon novel, yes, I am dancing with that devil, so we’ll see what happens. But I hope to write short stories for as long as I’m writing.
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TRANSMISSIONS: Agitator
January 5, 2024
Podcasting has forever cured me of being precious about writing time or having writer’s block. There’s so much commitment in podcasting, I’ve learned it doesn’t matter if I don’t feel like it or whatever, the time to do it is the time to do it.
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THE UNDERCURRENT OF DEATH: An Interview with Julian Tepper
December 29, 2023
Early readers have already told me that this is a novel about coming to New York as an artist and what it takes to succeed. Believe it or not, I wasn’t thinking about that all too much.
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X-R-A-Y SPECS: The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
December 22, 2023
And isn’t a catechism a religious text that takes the form of questions and answers? Is our conversation a catechism? Or just a cataclysm? Ha.
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THE EDGE OF THE EDGE: A Numinous Conversation with Mike Thorn and Kathe Koja
December 15, 2023
I’ve never felt I’ve fully, accurately transcribed a mental concept through writing, and that’s one of my key motivations for continuing: maybe I’ll get closer next time, or maybe not, but I’ll keep trying.
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TRANSMISSIONS: Textual Healing
December 8, 2023
As a writer I think it’s helped me to guess which questions an author might really want to get asked. So many podcasts solely focus on the writing. As a writer, I know that can be exhausting.
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SHORT, SMART, FUN, BAFFLING: An Interview with Brian Allen Carr
December 1, 2023
It’s infuriating to watch my peer group become less intelligent and more certain as time winds on. It’s supposed to go the other way. The more reality you experience, the less certain you should be.
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XRAY SPECS: Chafed Elbows (1966)
November 24, 2023
Isn’t that what every artist wants? To do the thing in the way they want to do it and have everyone they care about want that for them, too?
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