November 6th, 2009 / 12:36 pm
 Author Spotlight & Snippets
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Chris Higgs interviews Kristina Born for The Faster Times, about her new book One Hour of Television. [BORN: I wanted it to be suffocating. Gertrude Stein thought (mostly in reference to her plays, I believe) that you can’t write emotional arcs, because if the reader is not in the exact right emotional state at the right stage in the arc, you’ll lose him. Her solution was to put everything on the page immediately, like a painting, and allow the reader to pick out what resonated with him at the time. I’m interested in a different solution: a complete monopoly of mood. I want to try to write in a way where the reader can pick up the book, read any sentence, and be immediately crunched down into the mood he should be in.]

14 Comments

  1. November 6th, 2009 / 4:39 pm alec niedenthal—

      when is this shipping? i was planning my weekend around having it in my hands. i am sad.

  2. November 6th, 2009 / 12:39 pm alec niedenthal—

      when is this shipping? i was planning my weekend around having it in my hands. i am sad.

  3. November 6th, 2009 / 4:54 pm Blake Butler—

      hopefully on monday. the printers have been slow idiots. but i’m told i should be able to pick it up this weekend. soon, i promise.

  4. November 6th, 2009 / 12:54 pm Blake Butler—

      hopefully on monday. the printers have been slow idiots. but i’m told i should be able to pick it up this weekend. soon, i promise.

  5. November 6th, 2009 / 4:59 pm Adam Robinson—

      I know how that is: painful.

  6. November 6th, 2009 / 12:59 pm Adam Robinson—

      I know how that is: painful.

  7. November 6th, 2009 / 5:03 pm alec niedenthal—

      i believe in the truth of your promise. if you let me down, i will never forgive you.

  8. November 6th, 2009 / 1:03 pm alec niedenthal—

      i believe in the truth of your promise. if you let me down, i will never forgive you.

  9. November 6th, 2009 / 5:23 pm Amy McDaniel—

      hot. is she going to read for the anus?

  10. November 6th, 2009 / 1:23 pm Amy McDaniel—

      hot. is she going to read for the anus?

  11. November 6th, 2009 / 5:31 pm Blake Butler—

      if we can convince her to come out of canada, i hope she will. if not, i’ll put a wig on

  12. November 6th, 2009 / 1:31 pm Blake Butler—

      if we can convince her to come out of canada, i hope she will. if not, i’ll put a wig on

  13. November 6th, 2009 / 5:43 pm Amy McDaniel—

      is that a threat?

  14. November 6th, 2009 / 1:43 pm Amy McDaniel—

      is that a threat?