{"id":168,"date":"2007-09-09T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-02-25T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:02:00","slug":"bss-134-marianne-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-134-marianne-wiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Wiggins (BSS #134)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marianne Wiggins is most recently the author of The Shadow Collector<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Responding to the recent allegations concerning Bat Segundo and Vanessa Hudgens.<\/p>\n

Author:<\/b> Marianne Wiggins<\/a><\/p>\n

Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Fictive alter egos, Philip Roth’s The Counterlife<\/i>, James Frey, Kurt Vonnegut, Hemingway’s screenplays, Edward Curtis, ephemera, patriarchy, W.G. Sebald, 20th century photographers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/i>, truth vs. legend, “book time” vs. real time, photo manipulation, the similarities between Photoshop and Soviet propaganda, Abu Ghraib, novels as news source, literary antecedents, Absalom! Absalom!<\/i>, disclaimers, dialogue, long em-dashes, the difficulties of writing novels in London, California geology, the exhaustion of writing measured prose, Las Vegas and Hunter S. Thompson, and bathtub symbols.<\/p>\n

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Wiggins:<\/b> One interviewer said to me that he thought I wrote in the equivalent of jazz improvisation. And fortunately, given the luxuriant elasticity of the English language and our grammar, you can make all these elliptical riffs. You can put a dash in a parentheses and keep a whole thought going seamlessly, if — I mean, I hope the reader doesn’t get lost midway through the sentences and say, What? (laughs<\/i>) Where is this going and what is this about? But my mind moves in that, with that rapidity. So it’s almost a musician’s notation more than a grammarian’s.<\/p>\n

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Marianne Wiggins is most recently the author of The Shadow Collector. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Responding to the recent allegations concerning Bat Segundo and Vanessa Hudgens. Author: Marianne Wiggins Subjects Discussed: Fictive alter egos, Philip Roth’s The Counterlife, James Frey, Kurt Vonnegut, Hemingway’s screenplays, Edward Curtis, ephemera, patriarchy, W.G. Sebald, 20th century photographers, The Man […]<\/p>\n