Tag: City of Saints and Madmen

• The Hardest Working Man in Weird Fiction: A Jeff VanderMeer Interview

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks on December 19, 2008. In 2018, Paramount pictures will release Annihilation, a film based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In close proximity to primordial Florida swamps, branch-shrouded canopy roads, and Kafkaesque state capital intrigues, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are Tallahassee’s…

  Bill Ectric

  June 12, 2017

  Annihilation, books, City of Saints and Madmen, Finch, Jeff Vandermeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nabokov, Natalie Portman, Predator, Science Fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, weird fiction, Weird Tales

• My VanderMeer Interview

  Literary Kicks has posted the interview I did with fantasy/horror/weird tale author Jeff VanderMeer.

  Bill Ectric

  December 20, 2008

  Ambergris, Ann Vandermeer, Arcimboldo, Borges, City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff Vandermeer, Literary Kicks, Nabokov, The New Weird

• Autographs Tell Stories

  I don’t consider myself an autograph hound, but these three signatures are special to me because they each have a story behind them. The August 1963 issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland featured a lengthy interview with its editor, Forrest J Ackerman. This enthusiastic, scholastic fan of the fantastic opened my eyes and legitimized my…

  Bill Ectric

  October 19, 2008

  Alexis Korner, autographs, City of Saints and Madmen, Forrest J Ackerman, Jeff Vandermeer, Veniss Underground