Tag: Jeff Vandermeer
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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…
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AylettVison Goes Online
My edit of Steve Aylett’s LINT THE MOVIE can now be seen in its entirety HERE. Starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Jeff Vandermeer, D Harlan Wilson, Andrew O’Neill, Vessel (Mister Solo/David Devant), Bill Ectric, Mitzi Szereto, Spencer Pate, Mo Ali and others, LINT THE MOVIE documents the life and work…
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Fine Lines
I suppose my recent cut-up experiment is more about marketing than writing. It’s certainly easier to write a cut-up than it is to get someone to read it, but I don’t want to trick anyone into reading something that isn’t any good. Quality should always come first. One should believe they have a product of…
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Newton, Burdon, Bergman
Congratulations to Maud Newton for winning the Narrative Magazine Annual Fiction Prize for her novel excerpt, When the Flock Changed. Former Animal superstar Eric Burdon talks to Bradley Mason Hamlin about writing, filmmaking, shady record deals, and more at Mystery Island. On the House of the Rising Sun musical arrangement, Burdon says, “We didn’t have the time…
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My VanderMeer Interview
Literary Kicks has posted the interview I did with fantasy/horror/weird tale author Jeff VanderMeer.
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Generous Jeff Invites Us Into His Creative World
After a couple of joking “before & after” pictures, Jeff VanderMeer presents some interesting and educational steps in the completion of his latest novel, Finch. Check it out, this is really cool.
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The Rich Mystique of Pirate Lore
Fast Ships, Black Sails A new anthology edited by the always top-notch team of Jeff and Ann VanderMeer. Publishers Weekly says: “Saintly pirates, loony pirates, pirate cooks and talking animal-buccaneers slash and swagger through the Caribbean, the Internet, the perpetually frozen Atlantic and the seas of distant planets in this collection of 18 original stories.…
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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…