Category Archives: Interview
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Very short fiction summer
5June 5, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
Mother literature has four distinct children: the novel, stout, stable, liable to bagginess; the novella, a trimmed bush filled with …
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How to start a novel
3December 9, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
“The world is very big.” Writer and musician Stephen Hastings-King (SHK) said this in a recent discussion on Fictionaut titled “starting …
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the short story of the short story
Leave a commentJuly 16, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
«It is well known that the short story was invented by the Man in the Moon for two important reasons …
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Contraption
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
«When you first enter a madhouse as an inmate, your learn to fear the sounds: dreams rumble and rattle across …
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Caught in the Crossfire: Moments of Truth
1June 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
(Julie O’Yang is a writer and visual artist from Amsterdam. We recently met on the back of a virtual napkin for an hour of literary courting. The result was this cross-fire discussion ranging from Art to Amsterdam and from Butterfly (also the title of Julie’s last novel) to Bejing. …
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How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Write?
23May 20, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
1. Perambulating. This is not at all the post I meant to write when I began to think about it …
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Time Will Tell But We Must Speak Up Now
2November 15, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ― Rabindranath Tagore I was very happy to be …
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Consulting Your Own Oracle
Leave a commentOctober 9, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)
Being interviewed really means interviewing yourself. Interviewing yourself really means consulting yourself as if you were an oracle that doesn’t …
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