My boy S-Espozie has a new edition of the Quarterly Conversation up. There’s also an interview with E-Falco. Check this shit out, yo.
Ron Hogan talks with Joe Bob Briggs.
Tom Piazza at TM and MN.
Giles Coren: winner of the Bad Sex Award.
Note to journalists: Does Anne Rice’s Jesus conversion require six billion profiles?
Marilynne Robinson: popping that Grawemyer cherry.
Sedaris to address Princeton undergrads.
And someone needs to tell Mayra Montero that “erotic” is a good thing. People are coming to you, Mayra, for the hot sex and you’re complaining?

Disappearing into hole again. Visit the folks on the right.

December 2, 2005 by Edward Champion

Hiatus

We’re going dark for a while. It’s for our own good and yours.

December 1, 2005December 1, 2005 by Edward Champion

The Bat Segundo Show #15

Condition of Mr. Segundo: Unknown. We can’t find him this week.

Subjects Discussed: Anne Rice, the advantages of writing vampire novels, research, the ambiguities of “persistently repulsive” material, Fledgling as ripping vampire yarn and multilayered quest story, setting vampire rules, naming character names, the influence of the state of Washington upon atmosphere, Butler’s editorial relationship with Seven Stories, Warner vs. Seven Stories, on being categorized as a science fiction author, auctorial labels, Butler’s three primary audiences, Dorothy Allison, the influence of criticism, fiction as prophecy, Bush and global warming, education, Margaret Atwood, why Butler dislikes Survivor, the Parable books, why this is the first book in seven years, on writing a “continuous first draft,” Butler’s working methods, typewriters, technology, Alfred Hitchcock, cell phones, how Butler’s computer is set up, T.C. Boyle, on being a baby boomer, being “comfortably asocial,” inner introverts, polyamory, sexuality, the science aspect of science fiction, and science fiction vs. fantasy.