Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists

Author: Alex Stein  Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse (2009) Contributors: Pat Ament, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Peter Grandbois, Joanne Greenberg, Cecilia Vicuña "[A]n inventive mix of approaches to the interview, a taken-for-granted convention that is as underappreciated as it is ubiquitous, and a lively addition to cross-genre writing." –Doug Nufer "Alex Stein's marvelous Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists moves powerfully against the grain of standard received notions of what constitutes a book of interviews. Combining philosophical rumination and elegant digression with fascinating interviews that have been subtly but significantly reworked, Stein has brought a new variety of convive to the cross-genre table. The result, while offering the rewards of traditional interview compilations––access to the minds of first-rate thinkers such as Lorna Dee Cervantes and Cecilia Vicuña––also offers the reader a growing sense of just who or what the mysterious, deceptively self-effacing facilit