We got a fantastic array of work from artists who responded to our search for interstitial images for the cover for our upcoming anthology, Interfictions 2:  over 300 images showed up at the new IAF Pool at Flickr.
Many of them were seriously considered, but we can only do one cover, and in the end editors […]

If you’re up in the Boston area, you should check out this upcoming set of shows, lectures and workshops at Brandeis University, which will be the first US appearance of the Barcelona-based world/techno group Nettle. Billed as “a geography defying project founded by DJ /rupture, involving 4 musicians and a video artist”, Nettle’s lived […]

One of the high points in the development of any new form of communications is when people start to use it to tell stories. I’ve seen various attempts at using Twitter as a storytelling medium before, but my favorite so far is BomberBilly, which bills itself as “The not-nearly true story of one laid-off […]

Thanks to Mary Robinette Kowal - an early IAF supporter - for making us aware of this:

Puppet Playlist takes talented puppeteers and brilliant musicians and slams them together into an evening of live theater to stir the senses.
Our first Playlist will feature works of puppetry set to the rasping, crooning, stomping and shouting of Tom […]

According to the New York Times, the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife has been awarded a $5,000,000 advance for her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry. Why is this good news for Interstitial artists? Simple - check out the book’s premise:
The book is a supernatural story about twins who inherit an apartment near […]

We’ve alluded in the past to Michael Chabon’s possibly being an IAF Mole, but Austin Grossman’s report from Wondercon 2009 for io9 drives it home:
[Chabon] was born in 1963, and grew up during a Lee/Kirby hegemony, immersed in genre fiction of all kinds - Lovecraft, Conan Doyle, Moorcock, Leiber (if I judge Gentlemen of the […]