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 such a definition is only a temporary and arbitrary means to an end.”

–P.B. Gove. The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction. A […]

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 […]