Talk Show #15 with Kevin Brockmeier, Sloane Crosley, Sophie Gee, Samantha Hunt, and Melissa Pritchard
Jaime Clarke07.17.08
Host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Kevin Brockmeier, Sloane Crosley, Sophie Gee, Samantha Hunt, and Melissa Pritchard and asks them, if they could overcome the constraints of time and talk to any person from history, who would it be and why? And under what circumstances? Like if you could teleport back and see Arthur Rimbaud as the Parisian poet wiz kid and then catch him later as the sunburnt 30 something colonialist – ask if he enjoyed any of what he laid out for himself in A Season in Hell… ah but that’s neither here nor there, for what’s dreamed up here. Listen to what these authors come up with. Art by Danny Jock
The Spot
Larry O'Connor07.04.08
In France they celebrate Bastille Day, in O.N.A.N. they recognize Interdependence Day, and in America we toast the Fourth of July. For your holiday viewing, Larry O’Connor delivers a wry song of himself and the nation. And Larry’s car. Art by Danny Jock.
“Purple Dolphin”
Nick Sylvester06.18.08
Well we had to get this joke out of the way from the git-go…that it’s a true blast to finally read Nick Sylvester’s "real" fiction (which is to say if the gonzo reporting tradition was never your cup of tea, then there are plenty of News Corp. outlets out there now to get your "facts" from…). Here’s a chapter from Sylvester’s debut novel, the forthcoming Ten Minute Wait about "a secret society of waiters on the brink of exposure, a mistranslation that triggers a city-wide kitchen staff revolt, and a desperate downtown poet-waiter type who accidentally becomes famous off a silly pomo gag." Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 14 with Elisa Albert, Anita Diamant, Michael Lowenthal & Jim Shepard
Jaime Clarke06.02.08
What is your generational moment?…That collectively binding experience that those roughly your own age can instantly recall with vivid, almost photgraphic abhorant pain or glee (well generally, as here, these moments tend toward those that produce the former emotion rather than the latter). Host Jaime Clarke moderates the talk around the topic with writers Elisa Albert, Anita Diamant, Michael Lowenthal & Jim Shepard. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 13: with Kiara Brinkman, Bret Anthony Johnston, Fiona Maazel & Margo Rabb
Jaime Clarke05.13.08
We’ve all been caught in lies, from big whales of tales to the little white ones, lies of all kinds (of course unless you’re some kind of deity and in which case you’d probably scare the b’jesus outta me). So here in lucky topic 13 of Talk Show, host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Kiara Brinkman, Bret Anthony Johnston, Fiona Maazel & Margo Rabb about their recollections of some of lies they’ve been busted for. Art by Danny Jock.
Wilderness Year
Sean Dungan05.05.08
Psychic messages from a military base bagboy. Sean Dungan just published his first collection of stories, Unwelcomeness, a book designed with class by Caryn Aono and beautifully illustrated by Gail Swanlund. Dungan, a west coast author, whose range and strangeness of vision harkens (to this blurber anyway, if I may take liberties) the work of George Saunders, Ben Weissman or Ben Marcus. Here’s a taste, the story "Wilderness Year" – featured in Unwelcomeness that is very welcome here on Fanzine. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 12: with Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer, Nelly Reifler
Jaime Clarke04.28.08
Andy Warhol has boxes and boxes of stuff in a museum in Pittsburgh, the detria of his daily doings, almost everything he touched that wasn’t otherwise sold as "art." Somewhere in space Voyager carries with it a gold record containing the tunes of Chuck Berry and Beethoven. It’s rumored that Walt Disney (or at least his brain) is cryogenically stored somewhere, and here, in Talk Show 12, host Jaime Clarke asks writers Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer and Nelly Reifler what they would leave behind in a time capsule given a limited choice. Art by Danny Jock.
Sitter
Rachel Sherman04.22.08
Like the teacher who thought you’d amount to nothing, or the boy in the third grade with the runny nose you couldn’t help having a secret crush on, it isn’t easy to forget your babysitters. Bet none of them were like this one. Fanzine first encountered Rachel Sherman, author of The First Hurt (a finalist for the 2006 Frank O’Connor prize), on Jaime Clarke’s Talk Show column. Here she brings to the table a flash work of fiction. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 11: with Jon Clinch, Don Lee, Robert Anthony Siegel, Alix Strauss, & Sean Wilsey
Jaime Clarke04.13.08
My first car was a ’76 Toyota Corolla "Honcho" station wagon, bright orange with faux wood siding. You could start it with a butter knife and when going down hills you could turn it in such a way that it would slide like a good grind on a skateboard. Threw a rod on it, then it sat till the Chatahoochee flooded it… Anyway, this ain’t my story… Jaime Clarke talks to writers Jon Clinch, Don Lee, Robert Anthony Siegel, Alix Strauss, and Sean Wilsey about their first automobiles. Art by Danny Jock.
Gatlinburg
Douglas Light04.03.08
Here’s a deft dab of a story by Douglas Light, author of the 2006 Benjamin Frankling Award winning novel, East Fifth Bliss. In it, a couple, soon to be ‘Life-mate’s, find themselves at an impasse of words.
