Category : miscellaneous

Authenticity and the last Jew on Earth: novelist Joshua Cohen

Colin Marshall talks to novelist Joshua Cohen, author of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and now Witz. The new book follows the cross-country (and international, and possibly even interplanetary) journey of Benjamin...

How Hot Will it Get? How Cool Will It Be?. La Nina Cooling Slows, Then Intensifies.

GFS Temperature Forecast for Van Nuys August 24, 2010 12z This year it wasn't until July 14th that Downtown Los Angeles topped the 90°F mark, and Woodland Hills the 100°F mark. Through mid August we'd had only one short (four day...

The cinephile's conversation in new media: Battleship Pretension hosts Tyler Smith and David Bax

Colin Marshall talks to Tyler Smith and David Bax, hosts of the film podcast Battleship Pretension. For over three years, Smith and Bax have explored on the show all aspects of cinema history, cinema appreciation, cinema technique, and cinema critici...

Transcending the eighties: Wang Chung lead singer Jack Hues

Colin Marshall talks to Jack Hues, lead singer and, alongside Nick Feldman, primary collaborator of the rock group Wang Chung. Throughout the 1980s, Wang Chung released such albums as Points on the Curve, Mosaic, and The Warmer Side of Cool, as well...

Cultural critic Greil Marcus: Van Morrison's moments of disbelief

Colin Marshall talks to music journalist, critic, and observer of America Greil Marcus. Though they span countless subjects, Marcus’ past books have been rooted in examinations of icons like Bob Dylan, the Sex Pistols, Elvis Presley, and Bill Clinton...

Historian of the novel Steven Moore: in search of history's most innovative fiction

Colin Marshall talks to Steven Moore, author, critic, former managing editor of Dalkey Archive Press and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. In his latest book, the first volume of The Novel: An Alternative History, Moore traces the development of lo...

Latin American fiction translator Suzanne Jill Levine: the Borges behind the fiction

Colin Marshall talks to Suzanne Jill Levine, noted translator of creative, innovative, adventurous Latin American Fiction from authors like Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, and Manuel Puig. She’s also a professor at UCSB and the general edit...

Heatwave Follows Coolwave. Water Year Rainfall Varies Across Area. Record MEI Drop. GWO Orbits In La Nina Territory.

TAO/TRITON SST & SST Anomaly July 17, 2010 Following a 26 day stretch in which the temperature at Downtown Los Angeles was below normal 25 of the days, and several lowest maximum temperature records were set around the area,...

Five days with David Foster Wallace: author and journalist David Lipsky

Colin Marshall talks to David Lipsky, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. Crafted out of transcripts of a five day-long conversation between Lipsky...

Experimental poet Tan Lin: ambiently breaking reading conventions

Colin Marshall talks to Tan Lin, professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University and author of the books Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01 and Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource). His latest book, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and...

Sonic curator David Toop: the sound of silent art

David Toop is a composer of sound, writer about sound, curator of sound and research fellow at the London College of Communication. His works in text include Ocean of Sound, Exotica, Haunted Weather and the Rap Attack books. His latest is Sinister Re...

Experimental novelist Todd Shimoda: seeking mono no aware in and with literary art

Colin Marshall talks to novelist Todd Shimoda, author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware. Shimoda calls his stories “somewhat experimental, post-modernish, dealing with Asian or Asian-American themes...

SST Anomalies Continue to Decline. Southern California Temps Climb.

Niño Region SST Anomalies Woodland Hills (Pierce College) topped the 90° mark for the first time this year Memorial Day weekend, and after cooling a few degrees during the week, temperatures are back into the 90's this afternoon....

Buddhist atheist Stephen Batchelor: the road to "belief"

Colin Marshall talks to Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies founder Stephen Batchelor, author on, scholar of and educator about Buddhist topics. His latest book, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, recounts his journey from young spiritual seeker to...

Filmmaker Andrew Bujalski: the cinema of recontextualized relationships

Colin Marshall talks to Andrew Bujalski, the young director of the films Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation and Beeswax, which is newly available on DVD. Though Bujalski’s funny, realistic movies are often considered by critics to be of a similar geniu...