Joseph Matheny's Blog, page 31

The GSpot: Ralph Abraham

Joseph Matheny in conversation with old friend and mentor Ralph Abraham.

THE GSPOT AND CUP OF TNB WILL BE ON HIATUS UNTIL SEPTEMBER.

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RALPH H. ABRAHAM has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 1968.

He received the Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1960, and taught at Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton before moving to Santa Cruz. He has held visiting positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Warwick, Barcelona...

The GSpot: Crowdsourcing

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Joseph Matheny in conversation with John and Albion, representatives for "The Thirteen" from Project Restoration and Kelly Evans from Selfport

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Selfport is designed to improve living standards, at home and abroad, and for everyone, at any income level.

To do this, Selfport is developing new ways for people to earn a living, through collaboration on media, education and other projects.

Playing in Selfport contests helps set the stage to Change the World, ...

Cup of TNB: Zara Potts

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to author and TNB contributor Zara Potts.

ZARA POTTS is an Associate Non-Fiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. In a former life, she was a network television journalist, specialising in murder stories and entertainment. She has worked variously as a producer, reporter and publicist as well as contributing to major newspapers and other media outlets in New Zealand. Alongside her television work, Zara has also been involved in radio and film. S...

The GSpot: Mark Mallman

Joseph Matheny in conversation with the diversely creative spirit, Mark Mallman.

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"Criminally under appreciated" and "The greatest indie songwriter you've never heard" are both phrases written in the past 12 years of Mark Mallman's professional career.  He's opened for the likes of Donovan, Of Montreal, Cat Power, Green Day, Howie Day, Linda Ronstadt, Tegan and Sara, and Guided by Voices to name a select few.  His songs have been featured on This American Life, MTV, VH1, MSN...

Cup of TNB: Erika Rae

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to author, TNB contributor, and editor Erika Rae

ERIKA RAE is the author of IN A HANDBASKET: NOTES FROM A RECOVERING EVANGELICAL (forthcoming from Emergency Press, 2011). She is also a nonfiction editor at TheNervousBreakdown.com. When she is not whipping one of her 43 children and denying them bread with their broth, she runs a WISP with her husband from their home in the mountains just outside Boulder, CO. She has a Masters in Literature and ...

Cup of TNB: Steve Abee

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, poet and author Steve Abee .

STEVE ABEE was born in Santa Monica, California and began writing after high school when he held a job as an orderly at St. John's Hospital. His mind started to unfold itself and he thought if he was going to save it, he had better start writing things down. Abee recalls, "I saw the fragility and blessedness of lives and started to come apart in the wonderment of it all."

Abee writes in the American...

The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB's new publishing imprint.

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The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB's new publishing imprint.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (June 2010) – Readers addicted to nonfiction, fiction and poetry have long been getting their fix at the online culture magazine The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), a site founded by bestselling author Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.). Now, in partnership with Hukilau, TNB will be launching its own publishing imprint, producing print, e-book,...

The GSpot: Yony Leyser

Joseph Matheny in conversation with filmmaker Yony Leyser director of the documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within"

Yony Leyser is a twenty-five-year-old filmmaker living in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has directed several short films. After being kicked out of film school, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and began his passionate first feature film, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,  about one of the most interesting icons of
the 20th century,

He also works as a curator, video...

Cup of TNB: Heather Fowler

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, poet and author Heather Fowler . They discuss the infamous iPhone application censorship that involved one of Heather's Flash Fiction stories. More about that story here and on the podcast.


HEATHER FOWLER received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in 1997. She has taught Literature, Writing, or Composition related courses at UCSD, Modesto Junior College, and California State University Stanisl...

The GSpot: Henry Baum

Joseph Matheny in conversation with author Henry Baum about his newest novel The American Book of the Dead. This book recently won the The Independent Publisher gold medal for Visionary Fiction.

Henry Baum is the author of the novels The Golden Calf and North of Sunset and has published work in anthologies with Another Sky Press and 3 AM Magazine, as well as stories in Scarecrow, Identity Theory, Purple Prose, Storyglossia, and others. He lives in Los Angeles.