Interviews

Stephen Wright’s Literary Landscape

UFO freaks, plant-loving vets, and science-minded slave owners people Stephen Wright’s novels. Maybe a little off the wall? Maybe not. PATRICK AMBROSE talks with the writer about his books and their reflections of the human condition. (Interviews | June 7, 2006)

Elliott Sharp’s Instrumental Vision

What happens when traditional instruments won’t produce the sound the composer wants? Then new instruments have to be invented. A discussion about deconstructing, reconstructing, and ways to break the barriers of sound. (Interviews | October 4, 2005)

Personagem: Talking With Arto Lindsay

After 30 years of making some of the Western Hemisphere’s most adventurous music, you’d think a guy could take some time off. Patrick Ambrose talks with the ex-DNA leader about art, music, and the origins of his unique guitar style. (Personalities | June 9, 2005)

Talking With Alex Ross

Classical music was said to be dead in the 14th century, so why are we still holding it hostage? ROSECRANS BALDWIN talks to New Yorker music critic Alex Ross about the state of the art, which composers might appeal to different segments of rock fans, and exactly what he listens to at dinner. (Personalities | September 7, 2004)

Home, Jeeves, Jonathan

Wouldn’t it be nice, when you’re on the verge of a big mistake, to have a personal butler escort you home? Author Jonathan Ames thinks so, in telling Pitchaya Sudbanthad about his new book, what he’s learned recently, and what it’s like to write for TV. (Personalities | July 26, 2004)

Take the Downtown Train

If more men know what’s under the hood of a car than the hood of a clitoris, surely a revolution is needed. Enthusiast Paul Ford interviews Ian Kerner, sex therapist and author of She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman. (Personalities | May 25, 2004)

One Ring Zero

Not many people can play the claviola, and fewer still can use it to accompany lyrics by Neil Gaiman or Margaret Atwood. Pitchaya Sudbanthad talks to Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp of One Ring Zero, band of a thousand authors. (Personalities | May 6, 2004)

Pinstriped Portraits

We know our bombers like the backs of our hands—Jeter, Matsui, now the almighty A-Rod—but who exactly are the Yankees’ fans? And is there more to life than hating the Red Sox? Our man in Albany TOBIAS SEAMON finds out what ticks for a few diehard New York fans. (Personalities | April 1, 2004)

Now Here Is Nowhere

The Secret Machines’ full-length debut, Now Here is Nowhere, breaks new boundaries both sonically and legally: it’s being released in digital format today. CASEY BROWN chats with guitarist Benjamin Curtis and drummer Josh Garza. (Personalities | February 3, 2004)

Clueless in Academe: An Interview with Gerald Graff

Professors complain that each year’s batch of students are more clueless than the last, but could they be the ones in the dark? JOHN WARNER interviews author and academic Gerald Graff on who’s to blame for the failures in our classrooms. (Personalities | September 16, 2003)

75,000,000 Toddlers Can’t be Wrong

Steve Burns, the former host of Nickleodeon’s kids show Blue’s Clues, has embarked on a new career path: musician. Interview by Paul Ford, with equal parts comradery and mind control. (Personalities | March 17, 2003)

NYC vs. LA

The exodus to Los Angeles is growing. CASEY BROWN goes for a drive with public speaker and gallery curator Brendan Fowler, discussing life and art in the apple vs. the crapple. (Personalities | January 23, 2003)

Shy Child

New York City ‘Synth-rock’ duo Shy Child makes a unique type of music, an amalgam of synthesizer and live drums, with energy and precision. They spoke with ANDREW WOMACK about what’s happened, what’s next, and what’s in a genre. (Personalities | June 12, 2002)

The Secret Machines

The very extraordinary Secret Machines, en masse, spoke to ANDREW WOMACK about scaring the audience, the recording of September 000, and potluck dinners. (Personalities | May 24, 2002)

A Chat with Penny, Chatterbot

Computers are taking over the world, and, recently, they’ve started talking back. Celebrity reporter Dennis Mahoney gets the inside scoop on Penny, infamous chatterbot and supreme know-it-all. (Personalities | May 2, 2002)

Ladies Night Transcript

Every Wednesday, a group of San Francisco women meet to chat over a few glasses of wine. Margaret Berry is among them. This week they discuss the mechanics of sticking it to the man. (Stories | April 26, 2002)

Oof

This past summer Oof visited New York City from Osaka. Having never been here before, she spent her days exploring, camera in hand, recording a personal log of New York City with an eye to the everyday (but hardly ordinary) people and things that surround us. And at the end of the summer she stayed up all night covering a friend’s kitchen table in tiny strips of pink tape. ANDREW WOMACK interviews her. (New York, New York | October 3, 2001)

Mike Cina of True Is True

Cina is a designer in the broadest sense. His work spans a wide range of commercial and personal art, including print and Web design, typography, painting, photography, and bookmaking. Also, he is a fisherman. ROSECRANS BALDWIN interviews the man behind True is True. (Personalities | July 18, 2001)

Sam Brown of Exploding Dog

Sam Brown of Exploding Dog makes drawings from your titles. A simple formula for an author/reader exchange, and Sam has made some very funny, heartwearming drawings that touch us with their simplicity. ROSECRANS BALDWIN talks to the Dog. (Personalities | July 3, 2001)

Petter Ringbom

Creating Public Service Announcements to the Web community, doing the work for the love of the craft, taking the fear out of facing reality: ANDREW WOMACK chatted with designer Petter Ringbom about his design, your design, and going berserk. (Personalities | June 27, 2001)

Flip Flop Flyin

It’s been two years since Flip Flop Flyin started, and the Web hasn’t been the same ever since. Craig, the man behind the tiny man, joined ROSECRANS BALDWIN for a short conversation and helped him understand the beauty of small things. Note: Craig does not have a ‘Beatles’ haircut. He is very serious about this. (Personalities | April 5, 2001)

Pachinko6

Pachinko6 gained a certain notoriety among Web design circles for publishing daily e-mail ‘viruses.’ It was hard to find him, but he finally responded. ROSECRANS BALDWIN dished with him. (Personalities | March 1, 2001)

Andy Crewdson of Lines & Splines

ROSECRANS BALDWIN interviews Andy Crewdson of Lines & Splines. We especially like that he is an ‘average indie kid.’ (Personalities | December 17, 2000)

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