This is an interview I conducted earlier in the year with Carolyn Cassady. You can listen to it here. The fantastic illustration (left) was done by the talented Tom Kingsley. What a curse a cult novel seems to be . By connecting so acutely with the zeitgeist, books like On The Road tend to seduce [...]
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Interview with Sarah Hall
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Global Warming, Literature
This is an interview I conducted earlier this year for Notes from the Underground: In an interview after one particularly majestic display, Billie Jean King’s only explanation was a shrug: ‘I don’t know…sometimes you just…see the ball like a football.’ It’s an attractive notion – professionals unaccountably hitting form on certain days – and it [...]
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Marginalia
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Literature, Writing
… one of the brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin. The margin is a place on a paper form, which is designed for writing things down that are outside, both physically and conceptually, the form that “the system” expects. The thing about the margin is that it is connected [...]
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