Booksluts Over Berlin

A few people contacted me about this, so I thought I'd post it here: Jessa Crispin, the head of the blog Bookslut, was just on the Chicago radio program 848 and gave me a nice shout out while discussing a variety of aspects of Chicago's literary world.

It's a great interview (conducted by my former downstairs neighbor Alison Cuddy) and a great (if brief) comparison of the creative worlds of Chicago and Berlin (the latter of which will be Crispin's new home).

Ware/Burns

I came across this recently after getting sucked into one of those internet-search-black-holes (where I can't even recall what it was I was looking for in the first place): a 2005 interview with Chris Ware and Charles Burns.

There are those seemingly requisite, banal questions (with an original question thrown in occasionally) posed by the interviewer, but the two authors manage to get into some interesting territory nonetheless.