Author: jkonrath
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Latest reading
I’ve given up on Goodreads, and I haven’t been tracking my reading as of late, and maybe I should be doing that. Here’s a few things I’ve finished recently, in no particular order. Tim O’Brien – July, July Probably twenty years ago, I had to read The Things They Carried for an undergrad writing class,…
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Mindhunter
I marathon-ed out Mindhunter over the last few days on Netflix. I couldn’t remember the damn name, and for the first few episodes, kept calling it Brainminder, which sounds like a Tupperware product for zombies. Anyway. It’s a David Fincher-produced thing – he also directed four episodes. Set in 1977, early days of FBI profiling,…
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I think I have a dream about once a month that GG Allin is still alive, and I know him somehow. Last night’s dream: I moved back to Bloomington, to hole up and work on a book. Rented a room in a house that GG owned. It was one of those typical student ghetto houses,…
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KONCAST Episode 9: Timothy Gager
http://koncast.libsyn.com/episode-9-timothy-gager In this episode, I talk to writer and poet Timothy Gager. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and fiction, including his latest book of poetry, Chief Jay Strongbow is Real. He’s also the host of the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Links from this episode: Timothy Gager: http://www.timothygager.com The Dire…
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KONCAST Episode 8: Joshua Citrak
http://koncast.libsyn.com/episode-7-joshua-citrak In this episode, I talk to writer Joshua Citrak. He is the creator and co-host of the podcast Hangin’ With Old Lew. We discuss: the Raiders and North Korean Juche; the nuclear war, wildfires, and hurricanes trifecta; the Elkhart connection; post-industrial Binghamton; the rise and fall of IBM America; the synergy between nuclear holocaust…
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KONCAST Episode 7: Andrea Donderi
http://koncast.libsyn.com/episode-7-andrea-donderi In this episode, I talk to long-time friend Andrea Donderi, a recent graduate of The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. We discuss: the IU support center; the early web; knowledge bases and creating content; Jorn Barger and the invention of the blog; Gopher versus the WWW; the ChiNet BBS and other…
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Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Glass Beach, etc.
I’ve been back almost a week, but here’s a quick trip report on the tail end of what I wrote about last time. So I stayed just south of Little River. They have a town hall and post office that are in the same building as a two-pump gas station. So the whole town is…
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KONCAST Episode 5: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
In this episode, I talk to author John Sheppard about planes, trains, and automobiles – no, not the movie, but actual forms of travel. We discuss: Taking Amtrak across the country; Denver’s weed money revitalization; the painted deserts of Nevada; the subways of NYC, DC, and LA; flying space-available on the C-5 galaxy; skydiving in…
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Little River
I am in a cabin in Little River, CA. This has nothing to do with the Little River Band, who is apparently from Australia. (I had to go look this up.) Not sure why exactly I’m here. I wanted to bug out of town for a few days, and didn’t want to end up back…