Dark Roasted Blend Interview
Jeff VanderMeer • October 13th, 2007 @ 7:39 am • Nonfiction
An interview, with extensive graphics, that I did for Dark Roasted Blend. COnducted by Avi Abrams. Go for the art, stay for the blather.
Avi:
First some genre definitions for our readers: what is it you write – is this fantasy? is this fantasy on drugs? is this Dostoevsky on drugs? Is this poetry in the prose form?
Jeff:
Fantasy on drugs is surrealism or “visionary fiction”. I go back and forth between terminology, because one person’s fantasy is another person’s dreck. One person’s magic realism is another person’s blech. Depending on who you’re talking to and the context, you find that words mean very different things. But, really, what it is and should be is idiosyncratic, original, unique imaginative fiction.
October 13, 2007 at 11:44 am
I think that this is one of the best interviews I’ve read with you. I’m particularly pleased to have the list of your recommendations. You should put that somewhere here as a permanent feature.
October 13, 2007 at 12:03 pm
It was on my old blog and created a huge firestorm of other recs and controversy. As well as on the NS messageboards.
JV