Brian Warfield got in touch with me recently as part of an interesting project he has to interview his favourite living authors for his website. The other authors are: Ulrich Haarbürste, Thaddeus Rutkowski, John Brandon, Douglas Coupland, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Haskell, Chuck Klosterman, Tao Lin, Yannick Murphy, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Christian TeBordo and Willy Vlautin. It seems that three of those interviews have now been conducted and posted. So, here are the links to them:
Me.
Read some of Brian's writing, here.
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Hello.
I like ur interview a lot, I think I agree with a lot, truth in art as being truthful to one’s archetypes… I thought also about being true to one’s talent and one’s drive. I like this thing in art that when u do it, u have a right to dismiss all the rules that u’ve been thought, or u read… For me it is a bit like being a fool, in some way, not a bad way though… living, not thinking.
these links go to 404 pages in two browsers. thought you might like to know.
Ah… yeah, the links on the sites were doing that for me for a while, but stopped doing that for some reason. I suppose they’ve started doing it again.
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Originally posted by chrysantemum:I like ur interview a lot, I think I agree with a lot, truth in art as being truthful to one’s archetypes… I thought also about being true to one’s talent and one’s drive. I like this thing in art that when u do it, u have a right to dismiss all the rules that u’ve been thought, or u read… For me it is a bit like being a fool, in some way, not a bad way though… living, not thinking.Actually, this is very true, the more I learn ‘the rules’, useful as that is, the more I also find I must unlearn them again.
Currently, the links to interviews with me and with Thaddeus Rutkowski are not working on my browser, but the others are. Hopefully they’ll all work again soon.
That website is seriously wrong.
Currently the only link not working for me is the Thaddeus Rutkowski link. The site appears to be temperamental.
finally, the ‘me’ link is working and i was able to read the interview. very interesting ideas there. me, i am anti-mimetic bordering on the illumination angle.and i think the character option helps with reader interest. we all like to hear about people. also, the prototype main character draws one into a story. i’ll never forget how entranced i was in the thoughts of hans castorp in mann’s “magic mountain”. it’s a great way for an author to air his own questions to have you first identifying with the protagonist. for example i begin to question how i would feel if that was me.
I should be reading some Mann before long, but probably Death in Venice.
i wrote a paper in college on “death in venice”. i liked it a lot. an obscure book “the holy sinner” is an easy read and very provocative.”joseph and his brothers” inspired me do a large tryptich when i was twenty. for me, mann is one of the top ten greatest writers. :happy: still haven’t tackled “buddenbrooks” it’s long and promises to be as boring as proust can be sometimes. i never really gave proust a proper chance though.