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- Year One, by Franz Wright
  Year One I was still standing on a northern corner. Moonlit winter clouds the color of the desperation of wolves. Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.View Post
- The Next Big Thing: remember chain mail? This is that, but for...
  The Next Big Thing: remember chain mail? This is that, but for writers.The Next Big Thingis a pretty cool self-interview situation in which one author tags five other…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- Robinson Alone and Kees Remembered: An Interview with Author...
  Robinson Alone and Kees Remembered: An Interview with Author Kathleen RooneyLiterature and art and music have a long and storied (sordid?) history of key characters offing…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- Mother Ginger and The Nutcracker: An Interview with Jenna Bush...
  Mother Ginger and The Nutcracker: An Interview with Jenna Bush HagerEvery year at the Long Center is one of the most worthwhile pieces of what some would call “high…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- Discovering the Afterlife and the Democracy of 7-Eleven: An...
  Discovering the Afterlife and the Democracy of 7-Eleven: An Interview with Poet Dorothea LaskySome of the greatest, most insightful, most dangerous, and most damn interesting writing happening…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- A Feature Interview with Michael Pollan, Best-Selling Author of...
  A Feature Interview with Michael Pollan, Best-Selling Author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Other Great BooksThere’s no shortage of great nonfiction books, but not too often does an author have a significant…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- Divine Fits and Substitute Teaching: An Interview with...
  Divine Fits and Substitute Teaching: An Interview with Spoon’s Britt DanielSpoonis the epitome of a sure thing. Every couple years they release a new album of understated pop…View Postshared via WordPress.com
- Democracy, Hype, and Hooters: An Interview with Ed Droste of...
  Democracy, Hype, and Hooters: An Interview with Ed Droste of Grizzly BearFew bands can make music as unabashedly “pretty” as Grizzly Bear, but it may not have been until…View Postshared via WordPress.com

Ice Cream Orgies, 80s Hair, and RoboCop 3: An Interview with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin

Posted by nickcourtright on December 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Jeff Garlin may be best known as the philandering, amoral, accommodating best friend of Larry David on HBO’s amazing Curb Your Enthusiasm, but his career has featured much more than just being called a “fat fuck” by his noxiously endearing TV wife, Susie. For example, he’s done acclaimed voice work in Toy Story 3 and … Read more

Category Comedy, Interviews · Tagged with curb your enthusiasm, jeff garlin

Put 1000 Steven Wrights on an Island and Watch What Happens: An Interview with Comic Legend Steven Wright

Posted by nickcourtright on April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

1Steven Wright - Color 5 - Photo Credit Jorge Rios

There’s a saying that in art, greatness is defined not by what sells the most or what is the most popular or critically acclaimed, but by what makes everyone who follows have to readjust their way of thinking about the art form itself. In the comedy world, there are only so many people who can … Read more

Category Comedy, Interviews · Tagged with austinist, stand-up, steven wright, survivor

Beyond Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness: An Interview with Parks & Rec’s Nick Offerman

Posted by nickcourtright on April 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

You’d have to be in a state of serious and tragic life-denial to not know who that is in the picture: Ron Swanson, a man of estimable tastes and non-variable facial expressions, a man of bacon and deviled eggs, a man who’s spawned no shortage of internet adoration, whether it be calls for his election … Read more

Category Comedy, Interviews · Tagged with austinist, comedy, moontower, nick offerman, parks & rec, parks and recreation, ron swanson, television, tv

Breaking Bad, Law & Order, and Offending the Hell Out of Everyone: An Interview with Comedian Bill Burr

Posted by nickcourtright on January 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Bill Burr has been on fire recently. The incendiary comic is basking in the glow of victory, having just won the Boston Comedy Festival’s “Comedian of the Year Award,” with that, along with recent appearances on Letterman and Fallon, a second successful hour-long special, and a recurring guest spot on the much-loved AMC sensation Breaking … Read more

Category Comedy, Interviews · Tagged with austinist, bill burr, breaking bad, law & order

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2013 April 26-28 in Round Top, TX: Featured Reader at Round Top Poetry Festival. Other featured readers include Tony Hoagland, Kwame Dawes, Brian Turner, Kazim Ali, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

2013 June 20 (Thursday) in Austin, TX: Fun Party Reading w/ Kyle McCord

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2012 March 2 (Friday) in Chicago, IL: Beecher's/Parcel Happy Hour Reading at 6pm at Manhattan's Bar. AWP Conference Off-Site Event.

2012 March 10 (Saturday) in Irving, TX: Reading and Panel Discussion at 2:30pm at The Southwestern Commission on Religious Studies

2012 March 24 (Saturday) in Austin, TX: Reading w/ Jenny Browne at the Lord Weary's Reading Series

2012 March 30 (Friday) in Austin, TX: Featured Reader at Penniless Poets event at the St. Edward's University Literary Festival

2012 March 31 (Saturday) in Denton, TX: Reading w/ Kyle McCord via the University of North Texas

2012 April 17 (Tuesday): in Austin, TX: Reading at Concordia University Texas

2012 April 18 (Wednesday): Radio appearance on Writing on the Air w/ Francois Pointeau on KOOP (Austin, TX), 91.7

2012 April 25 (Wednesday): Radio appearance on Out of Our Minds w/ J.P. Dancing Bear on KKUP (Cupertino, CA), 91.5

2012 April 22 and May 13 (Sundays): Radio appearances on Poet's Weave w/ Romayne Rubinas Dorsey (Bloomington, IN), Indiana Public Radio 103.7

2012 June 21 & June 28 (Thursdays): Dual radio appearances on Poets Corner w/ Joe Gouveia on WOMR (Provincetown, MA), 92.1

2012 June 27 (Wednesday): Radio appearance on Ready for My Closeup, Ms. Mills w/ Julie Choffel on KOOP (Austin, TX), 91.7

2012 June 28 (Thursday) in Austin, TX: Reading w/ Julie Choffel at BookPeople

2012 June 29 (Friday) in Austin, TX: Reading w/ Julie Choffel at Domy Books

2012 July 10 (Tuesday) in Cleveland, OH: Reading at Visible Voice Books. Also reading: Bree.

2012 July 11 (Wednesday) in Cincinnati, OH: Reading sponsored by Important People and Chase Public. Also reading: Patricia Murphy and Ruth Williams.

2012 July 12 (Thursday) in Columbus, OH: Reading at the Paging Columbus Reading Series. Also reading: Michael Marberry and Rose Smith.

2012 July 13 (Friday) in Akron, OH: Reading at the Big Big Mess Reading Series. Also reading: Carrie Oeding, Kent Shaw, Dan Riordan.

2013 March 6 (Wednesday) in Boston, MA: Gold Wake Press AWP Reading at Trident Book Sellers

2013 March 7 (Thursday) in Boston, MA: Best Reading Ever at AWP

2013 March 9 (Saturday) in Boston, MA: Kraken Eats Boston AWP Reading
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Thought Machine: where ideas are born.

Ice Cream Orgies, 80s Hair, and RoboCop 3: An Interview with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin

Put 1000 Steven Wrights on an Island and Watch What Happens: An Interview with Comic Legend Steven Wright

Beyond Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness: An Interview with Parks & Rec’s Nick Offerman

Breaking Bad, Law & Order, and Offending the Hell Out of Everyone: An Interview with Comedian Bill Burr

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