Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Pre-Trip Link Dump (for Later)

• The Top 100 All-Time Voices in Cinema (via Cinetrix)
• "The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace" -- very interesting stuff.
• Richard Powers' "They Come in a Steady Stream Now" -- electronic-based fiction from the maestro.
• Richard Powers at Davidson College (October 2001)
• Early interview with Vollmann. Vollmann called "an incorrigible flirt," includes RealAudio excerpts (June 1996).
• Gilbert Sorrentino: "The main concern of a writer, if you mean a writer as artist, is to make art. He must have the luxury of being permitted to do this, just as the physicist is permitted to do physics and the surgeon to operate. An artist makes things. All else that he does, in his role as an artist, is incidental, accidental, or peripheral. If he worries about being an anachronism then he should quit writing and do something else."
• Gilbert Sorrentino on Flann O'Brien
• Grand Text Auto: a group blog about narrative in games and art.
• An epic documentary on BBSes.
• Long Emergency author James Kuntsler is an angry man. (See Clusterfuck Nation Manifesto. Also of note: Interview with Kuntsler and Jane Jacobs)
• Invaluable list of HP Lovecraft's influence on pop culture.
• 1985 interview with Anthony Burgess.