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Category Archives: multimedia
“Hangers Stout” in Real Life
Vids of people in real life who try the sport of “hanging” (described in Jack Matthews’ novella Hanger Stout, Awake). Not as easy as it sounds! Continue reading
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VIDEO: Jack Matthews on the storytelling craft
In 2012 Jack Matthews gave an audio interview about his writing guide, A Worker’s Writebook. This video gives excerpts from this interview and at the end, Matthews, reads from his chapter “Pointedness of the Tale.”
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New (old) audio, New (old) photos by Jack Matthews
I first got acquainted with author Jack Matthews by stumbling upon an audio interview he did with Don Swaim in 1984. Swaim used to run a literary interview show on CBS radio; later Swaim released the extended interviews with these … Continue reading
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2010 Audio Interview Now Available
“Literature is the least pure of all the arts, and that is its richness and power. It’s a temporal art like a symphony; it has periodicities, it has rhythms — prose itself has sound, it evokes visual imagery like painting….” … Continue reading
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Free Mp3: Miette reads a Jack Matthews story
Miette’s Bedtime Podcast is a distinguished podcast known for featuring classic and contemporary short stories by great & overlooked writers. Recently she did a reading of the great story A Woman of Properties which comes from the Crazy Woman short … Continue reading
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