Lee Bob Black interviews Justin TaylorDiscussed in this interview with author Justin Taylor: not thinking about writing, choosing whether to embrace or erase literary influence, the nonexistence of rules of writing, becoming a stronger reader, avoiding shooting your literary load on cryptic notes, writing about music, what an editor’s job really should be about, and how writing isn’t always a choice. Continue reading this interview at Tottenville Review.  Justin Taylor bio. Justin Taylor is the author of the short story collection, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. His fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in journals, magazines, and websites, including The Believer, The Nation, The New York Tyrant, The Brooklyn Rail, Flaunt, Canteen, and NPR. He edited The Apocalypse Reader and Come Back, Donald Barthelme. With Jeremy Schmall he co-edits The Agriculture Reader. A contributor to HTMLGIANT, Taylor lives in Brooklyn. A book him and Eva Talmadge, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide, will be published in October 2010. More info at TattooLit.com. Bio sources: HarperCollins.com author page, HarperCollins.com book page, newyinzer.com, HTMLGiant.com, Powells.com  Photo credit: Bill Hayward. Justin Taylor’s personal site: www.JustinDTaylor.net Justin Taylor at HTMLGiant: www.HTMLGiant.com/author/justin The Agriculture Reader: www.TheAgReader.com More Justin Taylor interviews: Interviewed on the BOMB
Magazine blog, by Ben Mirov, posted February 10, 2010 on BOMBLOG (BOMB's blog). Interview
on the New York Times Paper Cuts blog, by Gregory Cowles,
posted February 19, 2010 on NYTimes.com. “Justin Taylor Wonders Whether It's Better to Be Liked
or Understood,” The L Magazine, posted February 25, 2010 on
theLmagazine.com. A Q&A with Justin Taylor, by Michael Hingston, posted March 2010 on Too Many Books in the Kitchen (booksinthekitchen.tumblr.com). “Quick Questions with Justin Taylor,” Josh Spilker, Impose Magazine, posted March 16, 2010 on ImposeMagazine.com.  Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories, by Justin Taylor, book description from HarperPerennial.com: These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good.  Disclosure: Lee Bob Black did not receive any compensation for writing this content and has no material connection to the topics, products and/or services that are mentioned herein. More info on this disclosure: www.cmp.ly/0/w3efj5 |
