this is a round up (february edition)
March 2nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
February seemed less productive than January. In February I…
-interviewed xTx, who is [redacted] years younger than my mom. Buy xTx’s book here.
-interviewed DJ Berndt, founder of Pangur Ban Party and Metazen’s newest editor.
-had my short story “The Sphere of the Attraction Which is in the Moon Extends as Far as the Earth” published on Crispin Best’s publishing project For Every Year.
-made a cameo in Michael Inscoe‘s video for Richard Chiem’s “The Rivalry of Dancers.” Also in the video, a bunny, many intoxicated hipsters, Phillip Huddleston and Crispin Best. Crispin and I are Team Google Video Chat. (My favorite part of the video: “Long distance lovemaking is a bitch.” “How do you make love long distance? Are you talking about phone sex?” “Yes.”)
Put my insides on the outside: An interview with xTx
February 23rd, 2011 § 9 Comments
The first print run of Normally Special, xTx's short story collection from Tiny Hardcore Press, sold out in pre-order and is already headed into a second print run.
This is part four of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/improving/destroying the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with xTx over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Other interviews in this series include DJ Berndt, Frank Hinton and Stephen Tully Dierks.
Frances Dinger: haha, yeah.
how are you?
xtx: i am good! now that my green light is on i am getting chatted up! yikes!
::changing it to red:::
Frances: good move.
xtx: okay, whew
Frances: you’re on your lunch break, right? what is your day job?
xtx: my day job is [redacted] « Read the rest of this entry »
Cracked is an interesting website: An interview with DJ Berndt
February 6th, 2011 § 4 Comments
This cat is a party boy.
This is part three of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/improving/destroying the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with DJ Berndt over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Other interviews in this series include Frank Hinton and Stephen Tully Dierks.
DJ Berndt is the founder and editor of Pangur Ban Party, a site that publishes quirky and often weird e-books. He has published Frank Hinton, Ana Carette, Sam Pink, xTx, Jordan Castro, Richard Chiem and others. DJ has been published in decomP, For Every Year, New Wave Vomit and my Name is Mud among other publications.
DJ Berndt: hey, I’m down to do that interview if you want
Frances Dinger: cool. can you give me ~10 minutes?
have to call my mother real quick. haven’t talked to her all week and she is probably wondering if i am alive
DJ: totally, that’s cool
Frances: okay. ready? « Read the rest of this entry »
this is a round up (january edition)
February 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
In January, I took this picture of myself while taking another picture to go with my interview that appeared on Housefire.
In January, I…
-interviewed Stephen Tully Dierks of Pop Serial.
-interviewed Frank Hinton of Metazen.
-wrote about girls in movies in the year 2010 with one of my coworkers.
-was interviewed by Metazen editor Riley Michael Parker for Metazen’s new sister blog of interviews and solicited fiction, Housefire.
-reviewed SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton for Pilot Books.
-got an ‘award‘ from Metazen that I am embarrassed for my family to read about. (Hi! Mom and Dad.)
-finished a short story about Galileo’s discovery of four moons of Jupiter called “The Sphere of Influence of the Attraction Which is in the Moon Extends as Far as the Earth” that will soon appear on For Every Year. The story includes a passage in which Galileo’s nameless intern discovers the buttered cat paradox:
“Galileo’s intern observes that buttered bread almost always lands butter side down when dropped and cats (except elderly ones) always land on their feet, so what if we were to attach a piece of buttered bread, facing upward, to the back of a young cat and drop it from a certain height and see what happens, har har.”
Seems productive.
Emotionally dissonant but solvable: An interview with Frank Hinton
January 31st, 2011 § 3 Comments
This is part two of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/improving/destroying the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with Frank Hinton over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Frank Hinton is the editor-in-chief and founder of the online literary magazine Metazen. She has been published on Lamination Colony, in decomP magazine, >kill author, Pop Serial and Pangur Ban Party among other publications. She is 27 and lives in Nova Scotia.
Frances Dinger: hi frank
Frank Hinton: hey
Frances: is now an okay time for the interview?
Frank: yes. it is. im getting headphones. one of my roommates is trying to sleep so i need to get headphones.
I’m back
Frances: sleeping at nine o’clock on a saturday? do you live with old ladies?
that’s not a real question
Frank: hahah
sorry. the headphones I got didn’t work
my roommate is going through a ridiculous breakup
and she is taking it really dramatically « Read the rest of this entry »
seems bleak
January 27th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I had to record five days of activity for my poetry class in order to identify wasted time that could be used writing. I’m calling it a ‘list poem.’ It includes veiled references to conversations with Richard Chiem and Crispin Best, lots of waking up and not getting out of bed, eating, etc. Click images to embiggen.
"Arrived alone at house show and stood awkwardly in back of room with acquaintance who had also arrived alone."
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My attention span is shrinking but my heart is growing, haha: An interview with Stephen Tully Dierks
January 23rd, 2011 § 5 Comments
Stephen Tully Dierks reads ”What the Fuck Does ‘In Real Life’ Mean if You Live In Front of Your Computer?” for the Quickies reading series in Chicago.
This is part one of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/affecting the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with Stephen Tully Dierks over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Stephen Tully Dierks is the editor of the print magazine Pop Serial, he also manages the magazine’s tumblr page, which promotes other work by Pop Serial contributors. Stephen lives in Chicago and has been published in New Wave Vomit, Thought Catalog and Metazen among other publications.
Frances E. Dinger: okay, i am ready when you are
Stephen Tully Dierks: oh hi
Frances: haha, hi
Stephen: i am in a group chat with ana michael and poncho haha
Frances: nice. what is the group chatting about?
Stephen: a spanish music video currently
i could pull double duty probably
we’re just being dumb
i am ready
born…ready « Read the rest of this entry »
the brackets on facebook seem not symmetrical: an ‘interview’ with crispin best
January 10th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
cb: call it a 2/3wks and i ‘ll let you know if anything’s suddenly approaching? is that legit, hammer?
fd: damn, i’m surprised no one has 1602. the oxford library opened that year, shakespeare put on 12th night, there was a faminine in russia… yeah, that sounds legit, man
cb: faminine is ‘lack of females’ « Read the rest of this entry »
10 books I read in 2010 that weren’t necessarily published in 2010 (but some that were) and some general notes on my impression of them
January 2nd, 2011 § 2 Comments
I Gave My Little Brother a Tao Lin Book for Christmas
December 31st, 2010 § 2 Comments
Spilt Milk – North American Hamsters by subbacultcha (lyrics from the first page of Richard Yates)
I gave my little brother Aaron a Tao Lin book for Christmas, which he accepted with a polite facial expression and said, “Bed” after unwrapping it halfway.
Mom said, “Ooh, cool book cover.”
I think the cover of Bed is supposed to be a purple Nessie on a field of baby blue, which I would presume is water. (I was trying to describe it to myself from memory but when I looked at the book cover, I realized my memory of the Nessie figure is a lot more detailed than the actual illustration and the sea-beast’s head is facing left instead of right. Right is right, as in correct.)
My little brother said, “I’ve been reading more.”
I said, “Yeah, I know. I wanted to take advantage of that. Or encourage that…. This guy is kind of weird but it’s good.”
“Cool. I like stuff like that.”
“Good.” I don’t know how to talk about literature with my brother.
We hugged when I opened his gift to me. The gift was a “statement necklace” with chunky flowers on it. My heterosexual brother is good at picking out jewelry for women ie: my mother and I. Aaron doesn’t have a girlfriend but he told me an Asian girl who was possibly flirting with him at a party the other night was “hot.” « Read the rest of this entry »
