{"id":77,"date":"2006-08-28T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T21:52:00","slug":"the-bat-segundo-show-59-jeff-vandermeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-59-jeff-vandermeer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff VanderMeer (BSS #59)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3\"><img id=\"image4182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/segundo59.jpg\" alt=\"segundo59.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b>  Coming to terms with troubling generalizations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b>  Mushrooms as inspiration, writing &#8220;Dradin in Love&#8221; while suffering from mono, Steve Erickson, the writer as sadistic god, on being perceived as &#8220;difficult,&#8221; genre as revitilization device, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Weird\">the New Weird<\/a>, China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville, the value of taxonomies, the use of parentheses for voice, reinventing the Ambergris mythology, scholarly discourse in fiction, underground scholars, <i>Gormenghast<\/i>, Nabokov, cities, Beirut, Albumeth Boulevard&#8217;s inspirations, ephemera, balancing experimentalism and absurdism, objections to playful prose, the <a href=\"http:\/\/noggs.typepad.com\/the_reading_experience\/2006\/02\/in_an_interesti.html\">Dan Green dust-up<\/a>, <I>Shriek<\/i>: the movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechurchband.com\/\">The Church<\/a>, the <i>Shriek<\/i> parties, balancing the day job and the writing life, and the importance of physical exercise for writers.<\/p>\n[<b>INTERVIEW NOTES:<\/B> The interview was conducted by telephone.]\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1638\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-77-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=77-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo59.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo59.mp3\">Download<\/a> (45.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Jeff VanderMeer Condition of Mr. Segundo: Coming to terms with troubling generalizations. 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