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Talk Show 28 with Thomas Beller, Joshua Furst, Elizabeth Graver, Dave King, and Binnie Kirshenbaum
07.29.09
Long buried in a trash heap in Georgia are most of the presidential physical fitness awards I won as a kid during the Reagan administration. Learned back then while trying to run the mile part of the test that I had asthma; still I managed to eek it out for the Gipper. When older and "punk", and a bit smashed, I took some of these and other trophies and hit them with a baseball bat over the backyard fence into the rear lot of the A & P grocery store. Ah... awards. Well in this episode of Talk Show, # 28, host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Thomas Beller, Joshua Furst, Elizabeth Graver, Dave King, and Binnie Kirshenbaum about their memories of awards, more specifically blue ribbons. Art by Danny Jock. -CM
Talk Show 27 with Daphne Beal, Charles Bock, Emily Chenoweth, John McNally, Irina Reyn and Peter Trachtenberg
07.02.09
Jaime Clarke talks to authors Daphne Beal, Charles Bock, Emily Chenoweth, John McNally, Irina Reyn and Peter Trachtenberg about things from the past they might like to see return to the present (in some form or fashion) and why - from manual typewriters, to wooly mammoths, to classic Woody Allen dinner parties, to something akin to the workers movement known as The Wobblies...the answers in this episode are as varied as anyone might be expected to produce. Art By Danny Jock.
Talk Show 26 with Aimee Bender, David Leavitt, Dennis Lehane, Sam Lipsyte, Peter Rock, Dana Spiotta, A.J. Verdelle
06.16.09
Long before buying a record myself, there were a couple of LPs I took on as my own (besides Urban Chipmunk, Tom T. Hall and yes, Peter Rock, the K-Tel stuff); 1) the first Kiss LP I convinced my dad to buy around the time their solo albums were coming out, and 2) Funkadelic's One Nation Under A Groove (that was the one that folded out with the naked lady on the inside right?). Well I was obsessed with the art, the nakedness, the makeup (in Kiss's case) as much as the music, and while not always a good rule of thumb (think Insane Clown Posse) often if the art or makeup is wild, then the music (your ass) follows. Here in Talk Show 26, host Jaime Clarke chats with authors Aimee Bender, David Leavitt, Dennis Lehane, Sam Lipsyte, Peter Rock, Dana Spiotta, and A.J. Verdelle about their first favorite albums. Art by Danny Jock. -CM
Talk Show 25 with Brian Evenson, Lev Grossman, Elizabeth McCracken, Karen Shepard, & Gary Shteyngart
05.20.09
A treat and a milestone, TS#25 came in on my birthday, May Day, but is just now going up as we're a little ahead of ourselves in the Talk Show arena. Danny's gone bat shit prolific with the drawings and Jaime's ever surprising with the authors he brings in, like Brian Evenson, a fave, and the amazing rest, including Lev Grossman, Elizabeth McCracken, Karen Shepard, and Absurdistan author Gary Shteyngart. The focus of the chat is a blast too, a sort of Rorschach sans the drippy subterfuge - Clarke simply asks: what's the big "irrational fear?" So get prepped to laugh, relate or cringe along. Woody Allen's sold the spiel that all writers are neurotic as hell, so see for yourself with this Whitman Sampler...
Talk Show 24 with Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer
04.30.09
Hate to set these blurbs up with the personal (CM here), but when I think of first apartments not sure whether to count the one at the New School I dropped out of after the first semester (four of us in the dorm, each with their own addiction- booze, coke, pot and heroin, made for nice company, nobody messing with each others stuff really, except the booze...and the pot, oh and sometimes the...). Or the next in LA that I paid $200 a month for with a murphy bed, splitting the space with a friend sleeping next to me on the floor on a futon, a couch separating. Writing table in the closet was a good hideout for when the other had a date. Ah the good old days! Anyway, host Jaime Clarke talks here in TS24 to authors Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer about their first apartments. Enjoy. Art by Danny Jock
Talk Show 23: with Jenna Blum, Julia Glass, Nellie Hermann and Matthew Pearl
04.04.09
In Talk Show 23, that magical number, host Jaime Clarke gives authors Jenna Blum, Julia Glass, Nellie Hermann and Matthew Pearl a forum to bitch a little about something that they think is overrated currently, be it oh...what's the big buzz these days? Twittering? Or how about good old fashioned Facebook? or maybe it's the still hottest Eastern fitness trend (hmm what could that be?) that makes a certain writer's skin crawl. And what about text messaging? Isn't that some rotten thing we've all gotten snookered into? Then there's iThis and iThat... Answers, complaints and suggestions are all filed here. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 22: Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor & Nathaniel Rich
02.25.09
Cartoons, let's see: Droopy, Huckleberry hound, Smurfs, Battlestar Galactica...too many to name. Could always get my own bowl of Fruit Loops at the crack of dawn to get cracked up on, but just as cornbread and iced tea took the place of pills and 90 proof for old Bocephus, I'm more soy milk and granola these days, and regretfully couldn't say what's on the tube Saturday mornings. Anyway, let's see what these authors remember about their favorite toons as our host Jaime Clarke talks to Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor and Nathaniel Rich. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 21: with Sven Birkerts, Lisa Gabriele, Yael Goldstein Love & Adrienne Miller
01.15.09
Venturing backwards in time might be a thrill if you have a certain neoclassical fetishism, a thing for late 19th century mining towns, a penchant for playing "scullery maid" and so on, but damn those fleas and lack of modern dental floss! In TS 21 host Jaime Clarke talks with authors Sven Birkerts, Lisa Gabriele, Yael Goldstein Love & Adrienne Miller about where and when on the dial they'd set their reverse-only time machines to if given the chance. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 20: with Will Allison, Rebecca Donner, Ron McLarty, & Ben Schrank
12.22.08
Well here's a stocking stuffer for everyone, Talk Show 20, a nice round milestone for us here at Fanzine. In this episode host Jaime Clarke get authors Will Allison, Rebecca Donner, Ron McLarty, & Ben Schrank to spill the beans on their most embarrasing moments. The truths uncovered aren't just pissing in the wind. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 19 with David Ebershoff, Sheridan Hay, Amy MacKinnon, Kirsten Menger-Anderson & Roxana Robinson
11.05.08
In this episode of Talk Show host Jaime Clarke talks to authors David Ebershoff, Sheridan Hay, Amy MacKinnon, Kirsten Menger-Anderson and Roxana Robinson on the subject of subjects - doubt - whether the printed book is “dead,” whether there’s an afterlife? a God? the validity of the effectiveness of disinfectant wipes and other would be illusions looming on the horizon. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 18 with Chris Bohjalian, Joshua Henkin, Perrin Ireland, Aryn Kyle, Kelly McMasters
09.30.08
First dates can range from the love-kindling I-just-met-my-future-spouse variety to the more common awkard, sweaty-palmed anticlimaxes of angsty teendom (or older). Some had their first dates in elementary school and some in college, but these writers all remember the blood, sweat and tears of their first dates very well. Host Jaime Clarke does the questioning, while Danny Jock serves up the art.
Talk Show 17 with Jennifer Haigh, Margot Livesey, Mark Jude Poirier, Stacey Richter, Daniel Wallace
09.10.08
Winnebagos and chickens, Jesus and Disneyland, beach people selling VCRs, fearing and loathing (or trying anyway), and picking blackberries for Tom Robbins (he's another roadside attraction), these are just some of the images revealed in Talk Show 17 as host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Jennifer Haigh, Margot Livesey, Mark Jude Poirier, Stacey Richter, and Daniel Wallace about their most memorable road trips. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show #16 with Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tony D' Souza, and Salvatore Scibona
08.12.08
In this gadget edition of Talk Show, host Jaime Clarke asks his participants about the technology that changed their lives—pens, toilets, sewing machines, and televisions—for better or for worse. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show #15 with Kevin Brockmeier, Sloane Crosley, Sophie Gee, Samantha Hunt, and Melissa Pritchard
07.17.08
Host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Kevin Brockmeier, Sloane Crosley, Sophie Gee, Samantha Hunt, and Melissa Pritchard and asks them, if they could overcome the constraints of time and talk to any person from history, who would it be and why? And under what circumstances? Like if you could teleport back and see Arthur Rimbaud as the Parisian poet wiz kid and then catch him later as the sunburnt 30 something colonialist - ask if he enjoyed any of what he laid out for himself in A Season in Hell... ah but that's neither here nor there, for what's dreamed up here. Listen to what these authors come up with. Art by Danny Jock
Talk Show 14 with Elisa Albert, Anita Diamant, Michael Lowenthal & Jim Shepard
06.02.08
What is your generational moment?...That collectively binding experience that those roughly your own age can instantly recall with vivid, almost photgraphic abhorant pain or glee (well generally, as here, these moments tend toward those that produce the former emotion rather than the latter). Host Jaime Clarke moderates the talk around the topic with writers Elisa Albert, Anita Diamant, Michael Lowenthal & Jim Shepard. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 13: with Kiara Brinkman, Bret Anthony Johnston, Fiona Maazel & Margo Rabb
05.13.08
We've all been caught in lies, from big whales of tales to the little white ones, lies of all kinds (of course unless you're some kind of deity and in which case you'd probably scare the b'jesus outta me). So here in lucky topic 13 of Talk Show, host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Kiara Brinkman, Bret Anthony Johnston, Fiona Maazel & Margo Rabb about their recollections of some of lies they've been busted for. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 12: with Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer, Nelly Reifler
04.28.08
Andy Warhol has boxes and boxes of stuff in a museum in Pittsburgh, the detria of his daily doings, almost everything he touched that wasn't otherwise sold as "art." Somewhere in space Voyager carries with it a gold record containing the tunes of Chuck Berry and Beethoven. It's rumored that Walt Disney (or at least his brain) is cryogenically stored somewhere, and here, in Talk Show 12, host Jaime Clarke asks writers Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer and Nelly Reifler what they would leave behind in a time capsule given a limited choice. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 11: with Jon Clinch, Don Lee, Robert Anthony Siegel, Alix Strauss, & Sean Wilsey
04.13.08
My first car was a '76 Toyota Corolla "Honcho" station wagon, bright orange with faux wood siding. You could start it with a butter knife and when going down hills you could turn it in such a way that it would slide like a good grind on a skateboard. Threw a rod on it, then it sat till the Chatahoochee flooded it... Anyway, this ain't my story... Jaime Clarke talks to writers Jon Clinch, Don Lee, Robert Anthony Siegel, Alix Strauss, and Sean Wilsey about their first automobiles. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 10: with Brock Clarke, Elizabeth Gaffney, Felicia Sullivan, and Jen Trynin
03.26.08
Well we've all had 'em, shitty jobs, and more often than not that's been the case for those illustrious folks self-proclaimed as or who have otherwise earned the title "writer."...because writing, often doesn't pay, well, shit. Or that's this editor's experience anyway. But enough from the blurber, let's hear the shizzle on scheisse jobs from a batch of fine true writers - Brock Clarke, Elizabeth Gaffney, Felicia C. Sullivan, and Jen Trynin, all in conversation with host Jaime Clarke. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 9: with Jami Attenberg, Adam Braver, Nina de Gramont, Ann Hood, and Moon Unit Zappa
03.02.08
Got any spring break plans yet? Well, what about your strikethrough list of places not to visit? Host Jaime Clarke talks with authors Jami Attenberg, Adam Braver, Nina de Gramont, Ann Hood, and Moon Unit Zappa about places they plan never to go to. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 8 with Allison Lynn, Joshua Neuman, Thisbe Nissen, Dan Pope, and Rachel Sherman
01.30.08
In the new Talk Show Jaime Clarke leads the gab with authors Allison Lynn, Joshua Neuman, Thisbe Nissen, Dan Pope, and Rachel Sherman. The theme this time around is "family myths." They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but is your family as disfunctional as the folks on Seinfeld? Or wish they were? Find out about a family who does and more in Talk Show 8. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 7: Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson, Darin Strauss
01.08.08
It's Talk Show time again, and in episode 7 Jaime Clarke talks to authors Julianna Baggot, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson and Darin Strauss about the most monumentally significant pop culture moments in their lives. Art by Danny Jock, who explains in defense of the somewhat baldness of his Tricky Dick spector that "ghosts don't have hair, silly..."
Talk Show 6: Susan Cheever, Rachel Kadish, Daphne Kalotay, Mameve Medwed, Hannah Tinti, Vendela Vida
12.17.07
In Talk Show 6, Jaime Clarke asks authors Susan Cheever, Rachel Kadish, Mameve Medwed, Hannah Tinti, and Vendela Vida to conjure memories of their first day of school. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 5: with Maud Casey, Myla Goldberg, Karl Iagnemma, Christopher Sorrentino
11.26.07
In the 5th installment of Talk Show, Fanzine's regular hot seat thing-a-ma-jig for writers, host Jaime Clarke speaks with authors Maud Casey, Myla Goldberg, Karl Iagnemma and Christopher Sorrentino. The conversation is framed by this challenge: "Name an historical event you wish you would've witnessed/participated in and why." Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 4 with T Cooper, Lisa Selin Davis, Ellen Litman, Elissa Schappell, and Amanda Eyre Ward
11.01.07
Talk Show 4 theme? - childhood hero. It's surprising and I guess telling who some writers' heroes of youth were and why. I mean T-Cooper? Everyone who's read this seems to ask wait, what about Radar, or that guy in drag? In any case, M*A*S*H* to most of my generation was in general a stay up late re-run privelege that tended to bleed into the burdensome when older fanatics hogged control of the remote, in a post prime time herb and Cheetohs induced existential coma. But it's a great unexpected off the waller (the young sly Alda) and there's a good variety of heoric fanfare from a fine selection of writers this month. Hosted by Jaime Clarke and with art as usual by Danny Jock.
TALK SHOW 3: with Mike Albo, David Hollander, Molly Jong-Fast, Lewis Robinson, and Wesley Stace
10.02.07
In the third installment of Talk Show, the game show where contestants...I mean the forum where writers are asked about everything else but writing, host Jaime Clarke leads a discussion around the topic - "first kiss." Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 2: with Steve Almond, Emily Franklin, Lydia Millet, and Neal Pollack
09.06.07
In the second episode of Talk Show, the monthly Fanzine feature where writers talk about anything except for writing, our guests discuss movies they would like to remake. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 1: with Tod Goldberg, Pagan Kennedy, Rick Moody, and Elizabeth Searle
08.01.07
When you'd like to know what model typewriter your favorite author prefers or in which room of her split-level country estate she line edits, the Paris Review's legendary interviews are your first-stop resource. But where do you go when you want to find out what writers think about, well, everything else besides writing? Welcome to Talk Show, a new monthly feature moderated by novelist Jaime Clarke, where writers chat like everyday people. In our inaugural episode, Tod Goldberg, Pagan Kennedy, Rick Moody, and Elizabeth Searle share memories of their first concert experiences. Illustrations by Danny Jock.