Interviews & Reviews

POSSESSION IN THE GAME: An Interview with Thomas Kendall

March 6, 2024

There is this un-healable division between the physical and the mental within capitalist ‘culture.’ I do feel that we are losing the world and that begins with an alienation from the body.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1980)

February 23, 2024

The idea of chasing people into submission, trying to tame them as they run for their lives. Both the futility and cruelty of it.

TRANSMISSIONS: Not Worth Living

February 9, 2024

RG: What do you dislike about podcasts? IR: Hosts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.