Radio Auto-Ethnography: The Art of the Self-Interview on The Art of Dreaming

There are two curious post-modernist texts a writer can engage in reflexively: reviewing one’s own book, and the self-interview.

Using the auto/ethnographic lens, I will interview myself on my show, The Art of Dreaming on Revolution Radio, January 23, 5PM Pacific, 8PM Eastern.

I will talk about things he was not able to get to during his Project Camelot interview: working in Hollywood as a writer.  I shall discuss the ups and downs of getting his books and scripts optioned but not developed and financed, shooting a pilot for CBS and Sony that didn’t pass muster with the Madison Avenue guys’ focus groups so was never aired, dealing with players, liars, con artists and nymphomaniacs that plague Tinsel Town, and weird experiences and encounters with people like Ray Liotta, Dean Cain, Vincent Gallo, Bruce Willis and Winona Ryder.  I will relate what it took to get a low-budget indie film made, winning awards at Slamdance and various festivals, taking a short documentary to Cannes, and surviving as a writer in LaLaLand.

Dolls!

New Cover for My Star Trek Study

Same book as the print version, different cover for ebook edition.

Toro! — Father’s Day at the Bullring

An Obnoxious but Curious Review of Expelled from Eden

…on a Salon.com blog. Interesting when someone puts this much time into being so critical on a book published 7 years ago.

My Fill in for Kerry Cassidy’s Whistleblower Radio

Friday, May 25, I was by proxy the fill in host for Kerry Cassidy’s show on Revolution Radio. This was my secodn interview with Anya Briggs.

Interview with Anya Briggs

 

Pacific Northwest

I amin Portland for most of the summer working on my book about MKUltra and black ops victims. Should be an “interesting” sociological study about reality and programmed memories. No title yet.

Make Them Giggle monograph

A paper/short monograph originally in Creative Research Methods now in ebook form at Kindle only.

Carver Bio

Hey, Googler, my Raymond Carver life project is an interpretive biography, not critical, although there will be some critical aspects to certain stories that relate to his life story.

I am applying Norman K. Denzin’s Interpretative Biography as my lense — a sociological approach rather than literary, per se. Denzin’s method is to focus on pinpoints of epiphany in the subject’s life, which Carver had many: the day he met his first wife,  his first story published, his first story in a major magazine, the day he quit drinking, his first collection, his first NYTBR glow, meeting his second wife, etc.

Book is not done. We are most likely looking at a late 2012 pub date, or early 2013.