I am a lifetime birdwatcher – all the best birding quests are interstitial by nature. The best places to find the most species are precisely the habitats that overlap with and fall between larger, more homogenous zones.
In terms of the Northeastern U.S.A., a classic example is the hedgerow, the twisting, entwined cat’s cradle between acres […]

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 […]

Excerpts from today’s New York Times Book Review piece by Pankaj Mishra:

“Ideological inconsistency,” [Zadie Smith] writes in her foreword [to her new collection, Changing My Mind:  Occasional Essays], “is, for me, practically an article of faith.”

Smith’s hope . . .  derives . . . from academic high theory, which assumes that those who live […]

A short story by Franz Kafka reads in its entirety, “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.”
This dreamy little fable serves as an […]

As it says over in that sidebar to the left on our homepage, the IAF is dedicated to “the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art.”  It’s a tall order. As I’ve written elsewhere, interstitial art is uncategorizable, and the reason we dragged ourselves into the non-profit world was to try to create a public […]