“I like going to a show where everyone is into the music…Everyone’s on the same page for whatever, how long, twenty minutes. That feeling’s pretty cool.”
Interviews
Music Interview: Songwriter Mike Dumovich (Acres)
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Interview: Antonya Nelson, Author of Bound
Author Q&A: Michelle Haimoff (These Days Are Ours)
Lit Q&A: Bethanne Patrick, Book Maven
Interview: John H. Summers on The Baffler
Author Q&A: Dan Chaon (Stay Awake)
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Author Q&A: Julianna Baggott (Pure)
“What Type of Equipment Do YOU Use?”: An Interview with Singer Colleen Green
Author Q&A: Nick Antosca (The Obese)
Interview: Alex Shakar, Author of Luminarium
Luminarium is a book brimming with ideas…To get Alex talking about it, I tried using an unorthodox interview structure.
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Interview: Ryan Boudinot, Author of Blueprints of the Afterlife
Five years ago, the short story collection The Littlest Hitler hit bookshelves, announcing Ryan Boudinot as one of our funniest and most exciting new writers.
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Random Truths About… Sarah Jaffe
The Way Sound Leaves a Room was just released this month. An EP of covers and demos, it showcases Jaffe on numerous instruments she hadn’t tackled before, sounding beautiful as ever.
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Pete Hamill
Self-described “aging Celtic scribe” Pete Hamill is, in the argot of our time, an old-school journalist and writer. Born in Brooklyn during the 20th century’s Great Depression, he was a high school dropout whose first interests were in the visual arts.
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Black Tin Rocket: A New EP of Transmissionary Six Songs as Covered by Eef Barzelay
Due to pleasant coincidence and shared taste, Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide, and solo fame) has just recorded an EP of songs by Seattle songwriter Terri Moeller, the voice behind Transmissionary Six and Terri Tarantula. As the collaboration was his idea, I interviewed Terri’s beau and bandmate Paul Austin about how they got in touch with Eef, picked the songs, and felt about the result.
5 Questions: Summer Block Talks About Editing "The Foghorn," An Online Comedy Magazine
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we are launching a series of short-form, 5-question interviews with editors, writers and other “bookish” people. To begin, we caught up with Summer Block, freelance writer and founder of the online humor magazine The Foghorn.In addition to editing The Foghorn, Summer Block has published essays, short fiction, and poetry [...]
Daniel Okrent
An Interview with Seattle Hip-Hop Artist Cody Foster (Sadistik)
“For awhile I was like, ‘I’ll just make the most complicated thing that nobody else can do and then I’ll be the best.’ And now I’m kind of learning that sometimes the most difficult thing to make isn’t the best at all.”
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K.M. Soehnlein
“I think what preoccupies me is transition, that zone between one place of relative stasis to another, in particular how we act, or react, when we don’t know what will happen next. Or, put another way: during moments when external circumstances throw us into crisis or flux, what do we do?”
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Random Truths About… Damien Jurado
Damien Jurado has been one of the most influential and interesting songwriters in the Pacific Northwest for a decade. His new album, Saint Bartlett, which was expertly produced by Richard Swift, is one of the most listenable and lovely albums to come out in this already strong year of music.
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Random Truths About… John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice has been releasing solo albums for the past decade, as well as producing albums for such bands as Spoon and the Mountain Goats. He writes clean, clever music that often tackles the dark and the political while still offering sweet melodies and a warm analog sound. His 2009 release, Emerald City, is [...]
Interview: Judah Thomas and the Challenge of Faith-Based Filmmaking
Within the independent film world, Christian-themed cinema has been a vibrant undercurrent that has been quietly growing for a number of years. One of the newest filmmakers within this genre is Judah Thomas, a worship pastor at Faith Living Church in Plantsville, Connecticut, who released his first film, “Treasure Seekers Inc. – The Tiger Eye.” [...]
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The Eco-Critical Photographer: An Interview With Subhankar Banerjee
Banerjee’s photographs ask us to reframe the way we look at our environment, by focusing on one eco-system–the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge–and the indigenous tribes, native animals and geological structures that populate it. His work is being celebrated just as art historians are reframing their own critical lens to reconsider art through an “eco-critical” perspective.
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P.J.: An Interview with Filmmaker Russ Emanuel by Amy R Handler
Once in a while, a film comes along that forever changes our lives. Russ Emanuel manages to do this in P.J.—an award-winning film concerning an ordinary man’s extraordinary insight. Unfortunately, this man’s journey to self and social-acceptance is arduous— and many including his estranged girlfriend, believe him insane. It is this question of sanity raised [...]
“My Mouth Lies Screaming”: Interview with Mike Legge
I often think about that kid who I played little league with throughout my baseball career. Every year he sat on the bench waiting to get in for the required two innings and one at bat. I never knew why he kept coming out every year just to sit on the bench. What was his [...]
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Random Truths About… Simontronic
1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major. 2. What are your vices? I speak my mind. 3. What is one of your prejudices? The clumsy media and their intrusive and often inaccurate portrayal of the public figure. 4. In what way do you [...]
Bringing Light to Black Metal: Interview with Filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites
by Jessica Baxter “Until the Light Takes Us,” a new documentary by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites, tells the origin story of Black Metal without getting into any of that pesky music stuff. Instead, it focuses on the two main pioneers of the genre, Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell and Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes, letting them explain [...]
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Bright Lights, Big Cine: Interview with Bright Lights’ Editor Gary Morris
Bright Lights Film Journal, which offers some of the finest film writing out there, took the gamble and went virtual in 1996 after an on-off history in print.
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (2008), which was named a best book of the year by the L.A. Times. Her new collection of short stories is called Love in Infant Monkeys (2009). Her 2002 novel My Happy Life won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005) was shortlisted for Britain’s Arthur C. Clarke Prize.
The Activist Artist: An Interview With Wendy Testu
San Francisco-based artist and teacher Wendy Testu discusses her latest project: a labor of love that galvanizes one community around its social and environmental history.
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Random Truths About… Matthew Gray
Interview with Denton, TX musician Matthew Gray of Matthew & the Arrogant Sea on the urge to live raw, dream silly, and decategorize everything. 1. What’s the first piece of music you listened to today? “Bewley In White” by Bibio. 2. What are your vices? Yo La Tengo, served with a whiskey sour and a [...]
