The Literary Chick Interviews
The Literary Chick Interview – Lily Morris
The purpose of art is limitless and different for everyone. It’s a receipt of your life force, a map, a fantasy world, a mirror... so many things. If you’re asking what the purpose is for me, right now? In This 4am online chat with my brilliant friend Michael Corvo,...
The Literary Chick Interview – Dave Barbarossa
== I have a kindle. Just finished reading ‘High Rollers’ by Jack Bowman. I think I’ll take the ferry after reading that. == erm...‘The Human Stain’ by Phillip Roth. == Escape. To be transported. I am drawn to scores of great authors. I loved John Updike and Dickens,...
The Literary Chick Interview – Adam Smyer
Adam Smyer is the author of Knucklehead, which has been accurately described as “A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African-Attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and political turbulent ‘90’s”. The Literary Chick was...
Cyberpunk in Berlin and Los Angeles: A Conversation Between Marilyn Macron and Stefan Kiesbye
LARB blog article Marilyn Macron is a practicing attorney and promoter of reading under The Literary Chick™. Here, she talks with Stefan Kiesbye about his latest book, Berlingeles. Berlingeles is a move towards cyberpunk, a genre that is new to Kiesbye, who has...
The Literary Chick Interview – Kerry Wallach
by Kerry Wallach, Associate Professor of German Studies at Gettysburg College Gettysburg College website (could link my name to this page): http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/german/faculty/employee_detail.dot?empId=06446544020013335&pageTitle=Kerry+Wallach...
The Literary Chick Interview – French Filmmaker Patrick Morell
1. What books are currently on your nightstand? I am re reading “The Power of Myth” from Joseph Campbell. Conversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers published in 1988. It is a book that every or almost every American intellectual interested in mythologies,...
The Literary Chick Interviews Amy Madden, Musician, Songwriter, Poet
Middlemarch by George Eliot… an anthology of Spanish writing, an old collection of International poetry in translation— some ancient verse—odd and beautiful things… and of course a blank notebook for my night-scrawls and dream-notes. I usually answered Proust,...
The Literary Chick Interviews Adam Smyer
Right now I am working on Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power, by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy. Nonfiction, for a change. It is eye-opening. I am reading “great” here not as just very good but as life-changing and important. Time capsule shit....
The Literary Chick Interviews Rod Picott
I wouldn’t say I had favorite authors as a child. It was more that I was enamored with particular books. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor all had rich characters. I went through my Catcher in the Rye phase like a lot of young...
The Literary Chick Interviews Michael Barsa
I’m finishing up a classic I’ve never read before—Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables—and then I’ve got Daphne DuMaurier’s My Cousin Rachel and Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute Darling. Not exactly light reading, but I like my fiction like I like my food: rich, with complicated...