Just a short one tonight while I generally obsess over the new Star Wars trailer. I go on and off JJ Abrams, but I am tentatively hopeful about this one. Anywho, your Friday Finds: - I'm a big fan of Blank on Blank generally, but this Dolly Parton one is particularly charming. - This nursing… Continue reading Friday Finds
Category: interview
Blank on Blank: Lost Interviews
I love the thought of lost interviews existing. I don't really know if that's weird or not, but the thought of these conversations happening, being recorded, and somehow being misplaced, or regarded as too intimate for airtime, too angry, too simple, and hitting the cutting room floor really appeals to me.It helps that PBS has… Continue reading Blank on Blank: Lost Interviews
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/t_cK_cIydHY&source=uds This song was my jam back when it first came out, and it played on my shuffle this morning and just, man, I still love it. - This animated short of an interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the nature of happiness is wonderful and tragic given his recent passing. - The fascinating real… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/eR7-AUmiNcA&source=uds I've had this song stuck in my head basically all week, so here! Have a listen! May it be stuck in your head too. - This interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick is basically spot on, both for writing comic books and any sort of creative practice. - Anthony Mackie's comments on a Wonder Woman… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/B9dSYgd5Elk&source=uds MGMT's Time to Pretend has been my jam lately, but it feels particularly relevant to me over the last few days. I'm chilling (emphasis right now on the chill) in Newcastle with National Young Writers Festival and, as always, it's proving a pretty interesting time, awesome and big and a sort of sprawling mess… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/nIVa9lxkbus&source=uds Totally late to the party on this one, but The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is pretty great. - If you've got a little bit of time up your sleeve this weekend (maybe while you're between sessions at QPF), check out this amazing bit of prose by Sophia McDougall on hating the strong female… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/X0BELty_7jk&source=uds Some Mumford and Sons, The Vaccines, Vampire Weekend, The Staves and First Aid Kit covering The Beatles for your Friday. - Connor Thomas O'Brien has written a really excellent post on paying writers and new online platforms. Definitely one to check out if you're actively contributing to any online blogs or journals. - Literary… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
- Liticism did a pretty brilliant interview with Krissy Kneen discussing her new novel Steeplechase (which I am dying to read) and breaking down the difference between literary sex scenes, erotica and porn. - The Alternative Typewriter is doing a great series on women in genre fiction which is defs worth checking out. It's an… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
- To break in to the new year, Chuck Wendig has 25 Resolutions for Writers in 2013. - There's a really tremendous interview here of Helen Mirren, at 30, putting an interviewer in his place after he makes a few grossly sexist comments. - And continuing the ladies being awesome train, Tina Fey and Amy… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
- This interview with Matthew Lamb about the Review of Australian Fiction is basically fantastic. It gives such a great insight into the history of the journal and the planning and thought behind it, into the industry of Australian short fiction and the possibilities that digital publishing allows for. Also, hot damn, Matthew Lamb is… Continue reading Friday Finds
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