From Kelly Jean Cogswell’s article (12/22/10) on IAF founders Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman for NYC’s  bi-weekly Gay City News :
[W]hile fantasy writers may respect the hard to categorize “Other” in their literature, publishers are not so crazy about books that blur the genre boundaries. If you do fantasy fiction, stick to the conventions. Ditto [...]

In a recent article on Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano for suite101.com, Canadian journalist Karl Magi concludes:
Throughout his career Amano has moved between designing characters for anime and video games as well as working on personal projects in more traditional styles. This gives him the unique ability to adapt to a changing art world and adopt [...]

I’m admittedly a little late to the party with this one, but we at the IAF are incredibly chuffed to have been cited in a March 18, 2010 piece in The Valley Advocate. In Sailing Off the Map: Valley author Robert V.S. Redick brings the literary and fantastic together in high style, Advocate Associate [...]

While the specific label isn’t particularly important, the emphasis on rethinking realism, on embracing the best of genres like fantasy and science fiction, and moving into what Michael Chabon has called “the borderlands” between literary categories is at the center of much the best fiction these days, I think.
– Scott Timberg, “Magical Prose and Rethinking [...]

So, can a case be made for Translation as an Interstitial Art?
I was struck by these quotes from Edith Grossman’s new book, Why Translation Matters (in poet & translator Richard Howard’s 4/11 review in NYTimes Book Review):
So few [reviewers] have devised an intelligent way to review both the original and its translation within the space [...]

In a recent interview with “ArtsNerd” Heidi Broadhead of Seattle’s PubliCola*, author David Shields goes on record saying:
I’m just as much opposed to, say, a straight-ahead memoir as I am to a conventional novel because they both seem to me to be way too comfortable with conventions of genre. There’s a line in the book [...]

The IAF Tweets at http://twitter.com/InterstitialArt, where we also follow the

Although I’d argue that interstitiality is much, much more than “literary fantasy”, the official 2009 Nebula award ballot is full of such interstitial friends and fellow travelers as China Mieville (The City and The City), Jeff VanderMeer (Finch), Interfictions 2 co-editor Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing), James Morrow (Shambling Towards Hiroshima), Scott [...]

We like to be ahead of the artistitic curve — and now we’re on the cutting edge of technology, as well! IAF Working Group member & Interfictions author & blogger K. Tempest Bradford works for Laptop Magazine, testing out what’s new, and blogging about it. Last week, in an online video review, she demonstrated [...]

In a recent New York Times article on new paths for independent filmmakers (Declaration of Indies: Just Sell it Yourself! 1/17/10), Manohla Dargis writes:
“The new D.I.Y. world is open-source in vibe and often execution. Participants refer to one another in conversation and on their Web sites and blogs, pushing other people’s ideas and projects. (On [...]