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Talk Show 22: Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor & Nathaniel Rich
/ Jaime Clarke
02.25.09
TALK SHOW: Saturday Morning Cartoon
Allison Amend was born in Chicago on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She attended Stanford University and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has received awards from and appeared in One Story, Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner and Other Voices, among other publications. Her debut short story collection, Things That Pass for Love, was published in October 2008 by OV Books. Visit Allison at www.allisonamend.com
Ryan Boudinot is the author of the story collection The Littlest Hitler. He lives in Seattle. Visit Ryan at www.myveryworstpicture.com.
Francie Lin is the author of The Foreigner. She is a former editor at The Threepenny Review, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan in 2001-2002, and lives in Greenfield, MA.
Ed Park is the author of Personal Days. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Salon, Modern Painters, and other publications. He writes a monthly science fiction column, Astral Weeks, for the Los Angeles Times, and blogs vertiginously at The Dizzies. Visit him at www.ed-park.com and http://thedizzies.blogspot.com.
Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novel, The Birthdays and the annual series editor of The Best American Short Stories. She lives outside Boston with her husband, son and daughter. Her website is www.heidipitlor.com.
Nathaniel Rich's first novel, The Mayor's Tongue, was published last spring. He lives in New York, where he is an editor at The Paris Review. Visit Nathaniel at www.nathanielrich.com.
––Name your favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon.
Amend: I wasn’t really allowed to watch TV. But on Sundays I’d sneak downstairs before Mom and Dad were up and watch the only thing on television on Sunday mornings at 7AM in 1982: Beyond the Magic Door, a Jewish show which I’ve since learned was part of the Kiruv (outreach) mission of the Chicago Council of Rabbis.
Boudinot: Thundar the Barbarian.
Lin: Scooby-Doo.
Allison Amend was born in Chicago on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She attended Stanford University and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has received awards from and appeared in One Story, Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner and Other Voices, among other publications. Her debut short story collection, Things That Pass for Love, was published in October 2008 by OV Books. Visit Allison at www.allisonamend.com
Ryan Boudinot is the author of the story collection The Littlest Hitler. He lives in Seattle. Visit Ryan at www.myveryworstpicture.com.
Francie Lin is the author of The Foreigner. She is a former editor at The Threepenny Review, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan in 2001-2002, and lives in Greenfield, MA.
Ed Park is the author of Personal Days. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Salon, Modern Painters, and other publications. He writes a monthly science fiction column, Astral Weeks, for the Los Angeles Times, and blogs vertiginously at The Dizzies. Visit him at www.ed-park.com and http://thedizzies.blogspot.com.
Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novel, The Birthdays and the annual series editor of The Best American Short Stories. She lives outside Boston with her husband, son and daughter. Her website is www.heidipitlor.com.
Nathaniel Rich's first novel, The Mayor's Tongue, was published last spring. He lives in New York, where he is an editor at The Paris Review. Visit Nathaniel at www.nathanielrich.com.
––Name your favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon.
Amend: I wasn’t really allowed to watch TV. But on Sundays I’d sneak downstairs before Mom and Dad were up and watch the only thing on television on Sunday mornings at 7AM in 1982: Beyond the Magic Door, a Jewish show which I’ve since learned was part of the Kiruv (outreach) mission of the Chicago Council of Rabbis.
Boudinot: Thundar the Barbarian.
Lin: Scooby-Doo.
