Tag: Literary Kicks

• AL Letson, Penumbra: Live at Henrietta’s at 9th & Main, Jacksonville, FL (2005)

  Al Letson is a poet, playwright, performer, and radio and podcast host. This article first appeared on Bill Ectric’s Place in June 2005. Since that time, Letson has hosted and produced the show State of the Re:Union for National Public Radio. He now hosts Reveal, a podcast from PRX and Center for Investigative Reporting. Top…

  Bill Ectric

  June 17, 2017

  Al Letson, Def Poetry, Griot, Jacksonville FL, Literary Kicks, National Public Radio, NPR, Penumbra, poetry, Reveal, Russell Simmons, Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry, spoken word, State of the Re:Union

• Rod Serling Revisited

  An article I wrote for Literary Kicks a few years ago: It’s common among “Beat Generation” aficionados to scorn the popular media version of the Beats, especially the term “beatnik”, and the stereotypical goatee-sporting hipster. But to a youngster growing up in a small town, like me, sensing there was more out there than what…

  Bill Ectric

  December 4, 2016

  Literary Kicks, Rod Serling, Science Fiction, The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone

• Interview With Steve Aylett

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…

  Bill Ectric

  August 28, 2016

  C. H. Hinton, Charles H. Hinton, cyberpunk, Edwin Abbott Abbott, LINT, Literary Kicks, satire, Science Fiction, Slaughtermatic, steve aylett, The Crime Studio, The Krays, writers, writing

• The Aylett Project: Rachel Kendall Interviews Bill Ectric

  Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden interviewed me about the new collection of essays on the work of Steve Aylett, edited by me and D. Harlan Wilson. Here’ an excerpt: Rachel Kendall: A number of writers in the anthology refer to Aylett as a writers’ writer. What does that mean to you, and do you…

  Bill Ectric

  July 14, 2016

  Alan Moore, anthology, art, bizarro, D. Harlan Wilson, literary criticism, Literary Kicks, metafiction, publishing, Rachel Kendall, Science Fiction, science fiction studies, Sein Und Werden, steve aylett

• My Interview with Sohrab Fracis at LitKicks

  “Imagine you have a friend name Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi Fracis (“Fray-sis”) is the first Asian writer to win the…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Literary Kicks, Mark Twain Overlook, publishing, short stories, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Campion School, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, writers, Zoroastrian

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Hallucination, Transgression, and Redemption

  Credit: The middle part of the above collage is taken from the CD cover of Images of Kubla Khan, Copyright ©2009 Richard Hill, who tells us on his website that the “Copyright in the original mandala series of designs for ‘Images from Kubla Khan’ is held by Gabrielle Uncles. The designs were commissioned for the cd sleeve of…

  Bill Ectric

  January 26, 2011

  Christabel, hallucination, Kubla Khan, Literary Kicks, redemption, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spirit, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, transgression, witch

• 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