Nick Antosca
http://brothercyst.blogspot.com/
Nick Antosca is the author of two novels: Fires (2006, Impetus Press) and Midnight Picnic (2009, Word Riot Press). Antosca was born in Louisiana and currently lives in New York City.
Nick Antosca—
The Amazon crew are being such infantile shitheads with the whole Macmillan thing. Aw, Apple is going to make your ugly, stupid Kindle obsolete? It’s like when a new baby comes home and the older, less cute kid throws a tantrum. (Analogy via my roommate.) Wipe the oatmeal off your chins and grow up.
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INTERVIEW WITH PAUL TREMBLAY ABOUT SLEEP
slumberland
I met Paul Tremblay at last year’s ReaderCon, and then I read his novel The Little Sleep, a noir about a detective with narcolepsy. His condition causes him to hallucinate and to confuse dreams with reality, which makes his investigations really difficult and his reliability as a narrator uncertain at best. I really dug it. Now there’s a sequel, No Sleep Till Wonderland, just out, so I asked Paul some sleep-related questions…
Nick Antosca—
Just now walking on Wall Street near the stock exchange I saw a guy leading an excited crowd and carrying a white binder with the words “AYN RAND TOUR” printed on it.
“OH, I HAVE A NEW SHIRT”: NEW DAVID LYNCH PAINTINGS
David Lynch is excited about cardboard! He’s also “kind of interested in stories.” And he recently had an exhibition of his new paintings, which look pretty awesome. Check out the video (from the David Lynch Foundation) and see Hollywood folks like Laura Dern and Thomas Jane admiring them too, set the Flaming Lips music.
SALINGER DEAD
portrait of the artist in the rye
Sad news. J.D. Salinger has died. Feel free to speculate on the obvious (and I don’t mean cause of death)…
POWER QUOTE: THE INTELLECTUAL HEDONIST
young salter: fighter pilot and ladies' man. what's your day job?
There is the knowledge of the senses that includes carnal happiness, and a greater knowledge that comes from intellect and reason. In the life we admire, one succeeds the other but does not dislodge it.
–James Salter, There and Then
INTERVIEW W/ JAMI ATTENBERG
jami lives in a very brooklyn building
Jami Attenberg’s new novel The Melting Season just came out from Riverhead, and she’s reading tonight at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn. The novel’s about a woman named Moonie Madison whose husband has a micropenis, and she has some adventures involving lost women, dangerous men, Prince impersonators, and Vegas. The writing is really good and the book is Jami’s best so far. (I reviewed her first novel, The Kept Man, when it came out, and her collection Instant Love is excellent.) I asked her some questions about the book and about writing sex scenes and what kind of musician impersonator she’d like to hook up with.
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FINANCIAL UNREST
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea — cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.”
– Sterling Hayden, Wanderer
Nick Antosca—
This year-old “Quarterlife Crisis” meme article just stressed me the fuck out. Even though the whole “I’m in my 20s and I don’t know what I want to do with my life” thing doesn’t quite apply to obsessive writer types, does it? The problem for us is we know exactly what we want to do and we spend all our time doing it because we like to do it, but it’s not exactly a viable “career.” So for us the question is… what the fuck is going to happen to us when we get old? Where are you going to be when you’re old? Publishing flash fiction downloaded directly into the brains of ten people worldwide?