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Archive: December, 2009
“On Promoting Interstitial Art”
by Ellen Kushner | December 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]


E-versions of Interfictions 2 for that long plane trip?
by Ellen Kushner | December 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Small Beer Press offers DRM-free PDF/Instant Download eBooks . . . Fictionwise offers MultiFormat eBooks . . . and now, Amazon has Interfictions 2 for Kindle!


Neil Gaiman’s American Gods invisible to “modern literary ghetto”?
by Felice | December 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

Check out this snappy, interesting post by Berlin-based novelist Julian Gough, written in response to this review in London’s Guardian Review about The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi (a mainstream literary novel that itself seems to stray a good bit from domestic realism).
Here’s the gist:
“I just read a book review, in Saturday’s enjoyable and infuriating [...]


Now in Interfictions 2 Interviews: Henry Jenkins & Colleen Mondor
by Felice | December 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

This week, we have several treats to add to our series of interviews with Interfictions 2 contributors. The first is Colleen Mondor’s Q&A with editors Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak. Colleen Mondor, author of the blog Chasing Ray, is a reviewer for Booklist, Bookslut, Eclectica Magazine, and the Voices of New Orleans. Her interview with [...]


How many ways to spell “WE ARE NOT A MOVEMENT”?
by Ellen Kushner | December 8th, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Interfictions 2 author Lavie Tidhar’s weekend guest blog spot on Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days includes a semi-comic tirade about ’so-called “movements” in genre fiction.’ He writes:
Being a fairly prolific short story writer, I’ve noticed something rather strange happening in the last couple of years: I’m at the forefront of a lot of so-called “movements” in [...]


Interfictions 2 on WBAI
by Ellen Kushner | December 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

WBAI, New York City’s venerable, beloved & controversial independent, non-commercial radio station, plays host to Interfictions 2 co-editor Delia Sherman and authors Carlos Hernandez (“The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria”) & Genevieve Valentine (“To Set Before the King”) on Jim Freund’s Hour of the Wolf: Saturday morning, Dec. 5, 5:00 – 7:00 a.m EST.
Listen [...]


Now in Interfictions 2 Interviews: Ray Vukcevich
by Geoffrey | December 2nd, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The fourth in our series of interviews with Interfictions 2 contributors is Christian Desrosiers’ Q&A with Ray Vukcevich. Vukcevich is the author of “The Two Of Me”, one of the more unsettling stories in the anthology.
Here’s an excerpt from Desrosiers’ interview:
You write that a story is simply a story – do you see much [...]


Peter M. Ball interview online
by Ellen Kushner | December 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

Interfictions 2 author (“Black Dog”) Peter M. Ball talks about Life and Art for the Queensland Writers Centre blog tour over at Random Acts of Literary Vandalism.