November 6th, 2009 / 12:36 pm
Author Spotlight & Snippets

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. alec niedenthal

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

  2. alec niedenthal

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

  3. 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. 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. Adam Robinson

      I know how that is: painful.

  6. Adam Robinson

      I know how that is: painful.

  7. alec niedenthal

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

  8. alec niedenthal

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

  9. Amy McDaniel

      hot. is she going to read for the anus?

  10. Amy McDaniel

      hot. is she going to read for the anus?

  11. 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. 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. Amy McDaniel

      is that a threat?

  14. Amy McDaniel

      is that a threat?