On these pages, contributors present essays on interstitiality in literature, as well as personal reflections on the role of border–crossing and genre–hopping in their own creative lives. For additional essays about interstitial literature, visit the Why section of this site.
Barth Anderson
The Prickly, Tricky, Ornery Mulitverse of Interstitial Art (2004)
"There's a sense of playful disregard on the interstitial artist's part, seeking not merely to create something new, but something that jars…"
Susan Stinson
Cracks (2004)
"After spending a weekend at WisCon, billed as the world's only feminist science fiction convention, I have been thinking about consolation, pattern, interstitiality, and community…"
Holly Black
Stepping Over the Cracks
"I don't remember when I first heard "step on a crack, break your mother's back," but I do remember leaping over the concrete lines…"
Gregory Frost
What's In the Wind (2003)
"I think a whole lot of our genetically modified products have escaped from the fantasy orchard and blown onto that really big field across the (often self–imposed) road, and some of it in turn has settled over our field; for some while now, we within the orchard have been trying to describe to ourselves all that cross– pollinated mutant stuff."
Gregory Frost
In–Between (2003)
"We talk of borders and interstices, corridors and edges. It seems to me that the very act of creating, whether it's music or fiction or painting, sculptures or performances, is by definition to stand upon the edge...."
Theodora Goss
Crossing Borders, by Night
"When I was a child, I traveled with my grandmother across the border between Hungary and Czechoslovakia....These are the things you lose when you cross closed borders: memories, a language, a country."
Delia Sherman
An Introduction to Interstitial Arts: Life on the Border (2003)
"Borders are interesting places. As debatable land, sometimes waste land or wilderness, they can be dangerous places to visit or live in, but they are never boring."
Will Shetterly
Life Between Borders (2003)
"Crossing from Canada into the U.S., I was arrested for possession of hashish found in the car that I drove… I tell you this because life's dangerous between borders."
Jeff VanderMeer
The Interstitial Element in My Life (2003)
"When I first heard about the Interstitial Arts, I thought not just of writing and art and music — I thought of moments in my life that were interstitial, that led to the interstitial in my own writing."
Terri Windling
Artists Without Borders (2003)
"Though as an editor I've been gleefully border hopping every since my first anthologies were published back in the early 1980s, as a writer I've been more conservative, sneaking up to the border slowly, slowly, and with many a backward glance." |
