On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Michael Wheaton interviews Katharine Coldiron.
Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials, an SPD bestseller; Plan 9 from Outer Space, a monograph; and Junk Film, a collection of critical essays. Her work as a critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the Houston Chronicle, Brevity, the Believer, and many other places; as a hybrid essayist, she has placed work in Conjunctions, the Rupture, the Offing, and elsewhere. She is the reviews editor at Barrelhouse and the managing editor of X-R-A-Y.
Michael Wheaton is the publisher of Autofocus Books and producer of this podcast.
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PART ONE, topics include:
-- living in the unfashionable part of LA
-- being able to stop full time work
-- writing and watching movies
-- editing reviews at Barrelhouse
-- being able to dish out editing but not being able to take it
-- managing editing at X-R-A-Y
-- cross-stitching
-- Autofocus's How to Write a Novel anthology
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PART TWO, topics include:
-- parapsychology and Ghostbusters
-- an anthology of millennial writing on Poltergeist
-- getting the writing bug and the movie bug
-- Star Wars
-- old Hollywood
-- quitting and coming back to writing
-- the move into hybrid writing
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PART THREE , topics include:
-- the critical essay collection JUNK FILM
-- the problem of (not) defining good and bad
-- the word 'junk'
-- Plan 9 from Outerspace
-- bad film as an ecosystem
-- straight to VHS vs straight DVD movies
-- the role of delusion in artmaking
-- (not) distinguishing good and bad taste
-- trying to resist looking on with pity
-- cinematic grammar (not) translating to writing
-- a novel in progress about Ilsa
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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.
The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.
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