http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/09/18/christopher-barzak-walks-the-plank/ Jeff VanderMeer Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/09/18/christopher-barzak-walks-the-plank/comment-page-1/#comment-2129 Walking the plank: the Zen Edition « Christopher Barzak’s Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:37:53 +0000 http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/09/18/christopher-barzak-walks-the-plank/#comment-2129 [...] Christopher Barzak’s Meditations in an Emergency « Yatterings Interview Walking the plank: the Zen Edition September 18th, 2007 Jeff Vandermeer does interviews with authors who have books that have recently come out.   He calls his interview series Walking the Plank, and asks the writer questions in an interrogative form similar to that of being stuck out on a plank with many pirates pointing their sharp swords into your chest or back, depending on the pirates.  I am totally the wrong person to place on a plank though; if pirates set me out on one, I would probably just jump into the ocean of my own free will because that’s how I roll.   Or I would attempt to evade their interrogation by answering with zen-like koans, in an attempt to confuse them.  And so, since there is no ocean to jump into online, my plank interview on Jeff’s blog is decidedly evasive and zen-like.  You can read it by clicking here. [...] [...] Christopher Barzak’s Meditations in an Emergency « Yatterings Interview Walking the plank: the Zen Edition September 18th, 2007 Jeff Vandermeer does interviews with authors who have books that have recently come out.   He calls his interview series Walking the Plank, and asks the writer questions in an interrogative form similar to that of being stuck out on a plank with many pirates pointing their sharp swords into your chest or back, depending on the pirates.  I am totally the wrong person to place on a plank though; if pirates set me out on one, I would probably just jump into the ocean of my own free will because that’s how I roll.   Or I would attempt to evade their interrogation by answering with zen-like koans, in an attempt to confuse them.  And so, since there is no ocean to jump into online, my plank interview on Jeff’s blog is decidedly evasive and zen-like.  You can read it by clicking here. [...]

]]> http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/09/18/christopher-barzak-walks-the-plank/comment-page-1/#comment-2110 Matt Staggs Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:29:50 +0000 http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/09/18/christopher-barzak-walks-the-plank/#comment-2110 The interview style reminds me a bit of The Onion AV Club's "Justify Your Existence" series they used to do. The interview style reminds me a bit of The Onion AV Club’s “Justify Your Existence” series they used to do.

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