Zoë Keating photograph by Lane Hartwell

I wish I could remember when I first discovered Zoë Keating. It’s hard to associate her work with a particular year, because there’s something about it that seems to hail from either some almost-here future or some funky alternate history. If steampunk is Victoriana with computers, Keating’s self-dubbed “avant […]

People often ask me if I think I was born bitextual, or if something in my environment made me that way. Do I write both science fiction and mainstream novels, both fiction and nonfiction, because I had an absent father and an overbearing mother, or because I was exposed to too many different kinds of […]

It wasn’t so long ago that combining feminism and science fiction was considered interstitial. Things have changed since then, and women have established a solid presence in the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction fields. Still, this is an excellent example of how interstitial literature can evolve into a firmly established genre. In honor of […]

Ron Pasquariello, whom IAF folk will know from his ‘dog haiku’ piece The Chipper Dialogues in the IAF Annex last fall, has his artwork up for viewing in two different California galleries this month. Here’s the official invite:
Ron Pasquariello
is exhibiting his artwork at two galleries during the month of June.
Gallery One
May 23-June 26. Multi-artist […]

It’s not sponsored by the IAF, but the interstitially-minded in New York City on June 15th won’t want to miss this event:
Neil Gaiman, Walter Mosley, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford at Columbia U
Neil Gaiman will be in New York City, at Columbia University, to talk about the imagination and the increasingly scuffed line between genre and […]

(Ed.: Continuing our series of profiles of IAF people, Christopher Barzak is both a member of the IAF Working Group and, with Delia Sherman, the co-editor of Interfictions 2, our 2009 anthology of interstitial fiction. Previous profiles in this series have included Larissa N. Niec, Stephen H. Segal, Felice Kuan, Wendy Ellertson, Deborah Atherton, […]