Wednesday, May 1 2013
20 Questions: Denison Witmer
What started as a collection of songs for a class project in Engilsh has turned into a career that has garnered comparisons to the wounded-soul recordings of Elliott Smith. Now, Denison Witmer celebrates his new album with a 20 Questions feature full of profound insight for songwriters.
Tuesday, April 23 2013
20 Questions: Ben Greenman
Have you ever seen a juggler on a moving sidewalk? Ben Greenman, whose latest, The Slippage (released today), ponders this and other wonders of life in his response to PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, August 28 2012
20 Questions: Harry Shearer
What can one say about the irrepressible comedic cultural critic Harry Shearer that hasn’t already been said – or that he hasn’t already said, himself (in an array of voices)? Never short of words, Shearer has a few things to say to PopMatters.
Monday, August 20 2012
20 Questions: William Brittelle
With his daring electro-acoustic chamber classical album Loving the Chambered Nautilus still ringing fondly in our memory, PopMatters takes Brooklyn-based composer William Brittelle to task with our 20 Questions.
Wednesday, July 25 2012
20 Questions: Dan Rather
Will Dan Rather go to Heaven? Not if God is a mosquito. Which of PopMatters 20 Questions leaves this esteemed journalist from Texas stumped, feeling "dumb as a carrot"? Read on.
Tuesday, May 15 2012
20 Questions: Kate Bornstein
"I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder," Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters 20 Questions on the release of her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger.
Monday, March 12 2012
20 Questions: Carter Tanton
He's been in a ton of noteworthy bands (Tulsa, the Lower Dens), has toured with Marissa Nadler, and now invites her to sing on his freewheeling, eclectic sleeper of a solo album, Freeclouds. In short, get ready: Carter Tanton is going to be a force to be reckoned with ...
Monday, March 5 2012
20 Questions: Ellen Ullman
Technophile, humanist and storyteller Ellen Ullman is touring for her latest, By Blood. The cult classic Close to the Machine and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, The Bug, are enjoying a resurgence, as well. From the sterile environs of an airport terminal, Ullman recalls a glorious range of artists and intellectuals (and the work they have produced) that have shaped her.
Monday, February 27 2012
20 Questions: Miriam Shor
Miriam Shor plays Cricket Caruth-Reilly, a hot powerful real estate agent in Dallas whose husband, Blake, is gay, in ABC’s new comedy, GCB, airing this Sunday, 4 March.
Monday, February 20 2012
20 Questions: Gail Simmons
Eat. Write. Travel. Cook. Four little words, an amuse-bouche in the great feast that is food for thought, if you will, that would lead Gail Simmons to her prestigious roles with Food & Wine Magazine, Top Chef and Top Chef: Just Desserts.
Tuesday, February 14 2012
20 Questions: Fionn Regan
The Mercury Music Prize-nominated folk artist Fionn Regan has lead a lot of living in a very short while, and while his new album has been getting raves, it's here that he reveals a strong affinity for Dylan Thomas, how his stabs at art are very much informed by his love of music, and why he might be "cruising for a bruising" in those oxblood Doc Martens ...
Wednesday, October 19 2011
20 Questions: Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren
Former Shudder to Think frontman Craig Wedren tells us about his uber-ambitious multi-media album project and we're surprised to also find out about his affinity for the "amoral but ultimately just" Willy Wonka...
Tuesday, October 4 2011
20 Questions: William Shatner
William Shatner, Captain Kirk, Cultural Icon Extraordinaire. Shatner Rules. Like all great American actors – he’s not American. We’re not even sure he’s human. We’re certain, however, that he’s The Captain of Everything -- not least PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, August 23 2011
20 Questions: June Millington
Play Like a Girl, a killer vintage early '70s rock CD just released this month, is the result of experiences of over 45 years since June and Jean Milllington started their all-girl band. Playing like a girl is more than just making rock music, June tells PopMatters 20 Questions, it's about having a rock 'n' roll attitude.
Tuesday, August 9 2011
20 Questions: Jon Polito
Jon Polito’s mug is so familiar that he almost feels… familiar, like the merchant at the corner store, the beat cop in your ‘hood, or the local mobster. Yeah that's it, the local mobster.
Monday, July 11 2011
20 Questions: David Bromberg
Grammy nominated Americana musicians' musician, David Bromberg released his new CD, Use Me this month. John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Linda Ronstadt and others were happy to join in with him. This beloved collaborator talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about the many influences, musical and otherwise, that have shaped him.
Tuesday, July 5 2011
20 Questions: Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy’s Everything Beautiful Began After published this month. It’s a perfect summer novel for romantic intellectuals. Read here on PopMatters who this romantic would take a bullet for.
Monday, May 16 2011
20 Questions: Thomas Dolby
As the steampunk aesthetic embraces technology past, present, and future, so too Thomas Dolby personifies the creative and intellectual process of musical ideas past, present and future. He also turns out rather nicely in steampunk fashion. His new album, A Map of the Floating City, will release in the near future -- this summer.
Tuesday, May 3 2011
20 Questions: David Thorne
Humorist and Satirist David Thorne’s book, The Internet is a Playground, published in April. Finally, he gets his biggest break, his surefire launch to celebritydom, here on PopMatters 20 Questions. (The royalty check is in the mail, David.)
Tuesday, April 26 2011
20 Questions: Meg Wolitzer
Bestselling author Meg Woliter's The Uncoupling, a humorous novel about female desire, publishes this month. Wolitzer talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about, among other things, the simple pleasures of having one's own man shirt.
Friday, April 8 2011
20 Questions: Jonathan Franklin
Award-winning investigative journalist and Hugh Laurie-kinda lookalike Jonathan Franklin has a knack for finding humor in the funniest places. Hugo Chavez as stand-up comedian we get. But Patrick Buchanan...?
Wednesday, March 23 2011
20 Questions: Eisley
After leaving their major-label home and releasing the best album of their career, Eisley's Sherri DuPree-Bemis took some time out of her day to answer PopMatters' 20 Questions, revealing the importance of "Sun King", how awesome Abraham Lincoln was for rocking that beard, and why she'll always choose lightsabers each every time ...
Tuesday, March 15 2011
20 Questions: Hal Needham
When they first light that match, hold your breath! If you inhale, you'll suck in the flames. We'd all be wiser to heed the advice of Hal Heedham, author of Stuntman! My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life (February 2011, Little, Brown & Company)
Tuesday, March 8 2011
20 Questions: David Anderegg
David Anderegg's 'Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America' (Tarcher / Penguin, now in paperback) calls for embracing the socially awkward yet intellectually gifted among us.
Friday, February 25 2011
20 Questions: Over the Rhine
The coarse, dry dirt is sensed below the sweet, blooming fields of this Ohio-grown duo. Karin and Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine, making music from the bittersweet notes in life for more than 20 years, now, talk with PopMatters 20 Questions about what must go into the ground to make things grow. Their latest, The Long Surrender, released this month.
Wednesday, February 16 2011
20 Questions: Kim Edwards
'Labyrinth walker' and award winning author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about allowing oneself to head out into uncertain territory -- be it in the middle of a lake or the middle of a story -- and see where the journey takes you. Her latest, The Lake of Dreams published in January.
Monday, February 14 2011
20 Questions: Luke Doucet
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Luke Doucet sits down for an epic 20 Questions, where he expounds on the virtues of Facebook, the White Album, and pomegranates (yum!)
Monday, February 7 2011
20 Questions: Ariel Sabar
Before award winning author Ariel Sabar begins his book tour for Heart of the City this Valentine’s Day, he tells PopMatters 20 Questions about the lasting influence of an excellent newspaper editor he once knew.
Friday, February 4 2011
20 Questions: Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are back with their new full-length, No Chocolate Cake. Lead guitarist Scotty Johnson sat down with PopMatters to answer 20 Questions.
Thursday, January 27 2011
20 Questions: Cloud Cult
Environmentally conscious indie-rock band Cloud Cult sit down with PopMatters 20 Questions on the heels of their recent release, Light Chasers.
Monday, January 3 2011
20 Questions: James Blackshaw
Virtuoso guitarist James Blackshaw plugs in for the first time on his new album, All is Falling. He sits down for PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, December 14 2010
20 Questions: James McManus
James McManus is one of those writers who can write about any topic and no matter the subject, and you'll be hooked. But you don’t have to be a gambler to get caught up in the thrill of Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. He hooks us here at PopMatters 20 Questions.
Friday, December 3 2010
20 Questions: Dwight Twilley
Power pop singer-songwriter Dwight Twilley has a new album, Green Blimp, out now on Big Oak Records. He sits down for PopMatters 20 Questions, reflecting on his influences, his lost guitars, and his long career in rock 'n' roll.
Wednesday, November 24 2010
20 Questions: Apparat
Techno DJ Apparat chills out a bit with PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, November 22 2010
20 Questions: Lee Majors
Veteran actor Lee Majors is back as Col. Steve Austin of The Six Million Dollar Man (complete series releasing on DVD), as the father to the role where he was once the son, in the upcoming film, The Big Valley and as a rather Colt Seavers-like character (of The Fall Guy) here at PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, November 16 2010
20 Questions: Elf Power
Elephant Six collective Elf Power sit down for 20 Questions, shedding light on serious matters, including CGI, salmon jerky, and how best to get rid of Mormons knocking at your door.
Friday, November 12 2010
20 Questions: Catherine Coulter
Prior to becoming a New York Times bestselling author, Catherine Coulter worked on Wall Street writing funny speeches for an actuarial honcho. “I've never done anything that would land me in prison,” she swears to PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, November 9 2010
20 Questions: Autumn Reeser
On the small screen alone, Autumn Reeser is also known as ‘Taylor Townsend’ in the final two seasons of 'The OC'; as Jr. agent Lizzie Grant in 'Entourage', and as ‘Katie’, in 'No Ordinary Family', and here at PopMatters 20 Questions she's known as, well, the charming Autumn Reeser.
Friday, November 5 2010
20 Questions: John Grant
Upon the heels of his acclaimed solo-debut, Queen of Denmark, former Czars frontman John Grant sits down with PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, November 1 2010
20 Questions: Tom Payne
What is it that fills our eyes with stars and makes us desire to lift one among us upon an altar – and then consider setting fire to the altar? Tom Payne ponders this proclivity in his new book, Fame.
Friday, October 29 2010
20 Questions: Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and philosopher Oliver Sacks possesses a tireless intellect, a perpetual curiosity, and a compassionate understanding of humans. In The Minds Eye, he explores the physical and perceptual disconnect between what we see and what we perceive.
Tuesday, October 26 2010
20 Questions: Emma McLaughlin & Nikola Kraus
Joined at the hip: The Nanny Diaries authors Emma McLaughlin and Nikola Kraus have a friendship that is worthy of its own book, as evident in their replies to PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, October 25 2010
20 Questions: Greil Marcus
"Few if any American cultural historians take the great deep American Breath like Greil Marcus," writes Robert Loss. With his latest, Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 in mind, we’re pleased to have Marcus back with us, this time in the playful framework of PopMatters 20 Questions.
Thursday, October 21 2010
20 Questions: Patrick K. O’Donnell
Award-winning / Lady Gaga / Katy Perry / Top 40 listening author Patrick K. O'Donnell is an expert on WWII espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency on the modern battlefield -- and he's with us here at PopMatters 20 Questions.
Tuesday, October 19 2010
20 Questions: Steven Johnson
Pop thought guru Steven Johnson taps into neurobiology and pop culture -- with a few stops in-between -- to explore what fuels those "Eureka!" moments in his new book, Where Good Ideas Come From.
Monday, October 18 2010
20 Questions: Mark Mustian
The Gendarme author, attorney and city commissioner Mark Mustian reveals to PopMatters 20 Questions a deep sensitivity to life for the average person; from the struggles of his Depression-era father to the modern working man, just trying to pay his utility bills.
Tuesday, October 12 2010
20 Questions: Brendan James
Singer-songwriter and pianist Brendan James is touring for his latest CD, Brendan James, but before he hit the road, he settled down for a moment with PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, September 20 2010
20 Questions: Sam Hoffman
Sam Hoffman is the author of Old Jews Telling Jokes, based on the enormously popular website of the same name. He has worked with such legends as Woody Allen and has produced, directed, and assistant-directed movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums, School of Rock, Dead Man Walking, Groundhog Day, and Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
Tuesday, September 14 2010
20 Questions: Tao Lin
American poet, novelist, short story writer, and artist Tao Lin’s new book, Richard Yates releases this week. Lin tells PopMatters 20 Questions that he’s never hired a hit man, or been on a spa vacation, or used Prozac. Honestly.
Thursday, September 9 2010
20 Questions: David Michôd, Director of ‘Animal Kingdom’
Animal Kingdom is the critically acclaimed feature debut of young Australian director, David Michôd, who has helmed many short films that have made the festival circuit.
Thursday, September 2 2010
20 Questions: Melora Creagor-Rasputina
Rasputina's newest CD, Sister Kinderhook, came out in June. Rasputina's founder, Melora Creager, tells PopMatters 20 Questions about the lure of living in an era past, when what was essential could be made by hand -- and giants walked among us.
Tuesday, August 24 2010
20 Questions: Marc Cohn
Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn tells PopMatters 20 Questions how Ray Charles (channeled through his producer, Jerry Wexler) taught him almost everything he needed to know about singing. It’s a (not so simple) trick involving a full cup of coffee. Read on.
Wednesday, August 18 2010
20 Questions: Vikas Swarup
Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup's latest, Six Suspects, is out in paperback this month. He confesses to PopMatters 20 Questions that he's sometimes stopped on the streets of the various countries he works in because people mistake him for James Bond.
Monday, July 19 2010
20 Questions: Gene Weingarten
Gene Weingarten, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, nationally syndicated humor columnist and writer for The Washington Post, and now one-half cartoonist, has a new book out. More importantly, he answers PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, July 12 2010
20 Questions: A. J. Jacobs
He coos, he digerdoos, he pole dances, he plays harmonica – without a harmonica -- and he’s funny, too. In his latest book of bold experimentation, My Life as an Experiment, A. J. Jacobs, Editor-at-Large for Esquire, lives as a woman, becomes a human guinea pig, and otherwise provides an edutaining look at things we humans tend to hold dear – and then he turns it all askew.
Tuesday, June 15 2010
20 Questions: Sloane Crosley
Satirist Sloane Crosley’s How Did You Get This Number regales with hilarious tales involving amateur clowns, a kleptomaniac roommate and a black bear. PopMatters 20 Questions found her at a seemingly safe and quiet spot, for the moment, someplace with contemplation-inducing bathroom tiles…
Monday, May 17 2010
20 Questions: Sarah Silverman
The satirical, taboo-busting, notoriously potty-mouthed Sarah Silverman has written a book about … well, pee – among other things. “Big S” talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about her affinity for Bugs Bunny, an affection for Mr. Rogers, and how, with the help of a time machine, she might have helped steer Hitler from his destructive course.
Monday, May 10 2010
20 Questions: Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow tells PopMatters 20 Questions about how an indulgence from a librarian and an insult at a sci-fi writing workshop were the best encouragement – and advice -- he ever received. The latest result from those prods, both gentle and not so: For the Win (May 2010).
Monday, May 3 2010
20 Questions: Dave Barry
Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York, in 1947 and has been steadily growing older ever since without ever actually reaching maturity -- a condition which he struggles with in heart-rending detail and bare-his-breast honesty in his newest book, I'll Mature When I'm Dead.
Tuesday, April 27 2010
20 Questions: Kim Severson
Food writer Kim Severson’s latest is Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life. Her ideal guests at the Ritz, she tells PopMatters 20 Questions, would be Gertrude Stein, Eleanor Roosevelt and Lucille Ball.
Monday, April 19 2010
20 Questions: Steve Almond
Steve Almond, who’s latest book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (13 April) talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about high ideals for literature – and how sexy William Shatner is.
Monday, April 12 2010
20 Questions: Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is a Renaissance man whose work should be read, learned from, and admired. His latest, Eastern Stars publishes this week. He tells PopMatters 20 Questions why he’ll take rebels over saints any day.
Monday, April 5 2010
20 Questions: Anne Lamott
Everyone in Anne Lamott's books is sort of screwed up, but she stocks them with an irresistible humor and core decency. Her latest, Imperfect Birds, releases 6 April.
Monday, March 22 2010
20 Questions: Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley, author of more than 29 critically acclaimed books, presents his latest in the Leonid McGill series, Known to Evil (releasing 23 March).
Wednesday, March 17 2010
20 Questions: Lisa Lutz
Bestselling author Lisa Lutz identifies the essentials in life, coffee and vodka, like this: “One makes the morning tolerable. And coffee lights up the evening.” Enjoy either beverage while reading The Spellman’s Strike Again, releasing this week.
Monday, March 8 2010
20 Questions: Chang-Rae Lee
The award winning author of The Surrendered talks about improvisation, the rigor of limitation, and sometimes having to take a risk.
Tuesday, March 2 2010
20 Questions: Holopaw
Holopaw's Patrick Quinney reveals a secret love of Twin Peaks, a knowledge of all things Craig Biggio, and the 7" he'd love to argue about.
Monday, March 1 2010
20 Questions: Patty Larkin
This year marks Patty Larkin’s 25th year of recording. The master musician’s new CD, 25 (releasing 9 March), features 25 of her most requested love songs, re-worked in acoustic format, and joined by 25 friends.
Monday, February 22 2010
20 Questions: Superjail!: Christy Karacas and Steve Warbrick
Superjail! creators Christy Karacas (Cartoon Sushi), and Stephen Warbrick (Beavis and Butthead, Celebrity Deathmatch) were turned loose, briefly, to answer our 20 Questions.
Monday, February 15 2010
20 Questions: Katharine McMahon
“When I’m stuck”, historical novelist Katharine McMahon tells PopMatters 20 Questions, “theatre unlocks my brain.”
Wednesday, February 10 2010
20 Questions: Steve Schiltz of the Hurricane Bells
Longwave frontman Steve Schiltz took time off from his main band to form Hurricane Bells and wound up on the New Moon soundtrack.
Wednesday, February 3 2010
20 Questions: The 88
After years of being pop music's "best kept secret", the 88 are now breaking out with their theme song to the NBC show Community.
Monday, February 1 2010
20 Questions: Githead
With a love of Eastwood and Bosch, this supergroup tackles 20 Questions while basking in the warm critical glow that third album Landing has received.
Thursday, December 3 2009
20 Questions: Bruce Greenwood
The prolific actor Bruce Greenwood shows up as yet another character for 20 Questions -- this time as a rather erudite cake designer with a mean edge on a ’53 Telecaster.
Tuesday, November 24 2009
20 Questions: Sandra Brown
Bestselling author Sandra Brown chats about her weep-inducing, wavering confidence and advises that one should be wary of hiring a discount hit man.
Tuesday, November 17 2009
20 Questions: Alison Brie and Donald Glover of ‘Community’
Alison Brie, who plays Trudy on Mad Men and Donald Glover, who wrote for 30 Rock before joining the Community cast, indulge in a friendly, teasing, tête à tête of sorts, as they consider PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, November 2 2009
20 Questions: Old Canes
Stealing Kurt Vonnegut books? Getting choked up during M*A*S*H? Appleseed Cast frontman Chris Crisci talks about all of these things and more as his folk-affected side-project releases their second album.
Thursday, October 29 2009
20 Questions: Fuck Buttons
Stealing penguins! A secret connection with Garfield! Dropping fruit pastille in the primordial ooze! Experimental UK noise duo Fuck Buttons discuss this and more.
Wednesday, October 28 2009
20 Questions: Barb Johnson
From a balcony overlooking the flood of New Orleans to 'The Bubble' laundromat, where the city's characters come to wash it all out, award-winning author Barb Johnson talks with PopMatters 20 Questions.
Monday, October 19 2009
20 Questions: Patricia Cornwell
20 Questions caught up with award-winning, international best-selling author Patricia Cornwell in a rare moment when her feet were on the ground.
Thursday, October 15 2009
20 Questions: Anvil
Still riding high off of the success of their acclaimed documentary (and likely Oscar-nominee), the founders of Canada's famed metal trailblazers Anvil sit down to answer 20 Questions about family, weed, and a surprising love of Star Trek ...
Monday, October 12 2009
20 Questions: Aziz Ansari
Named Entertainment Weekly’s top 12 future stars of comedy, Aziz Ansari has a voracious appetite for performing, eating, and… just about anything else that is subject to an appetite.
Thursday, October 8 2009
20 Questions: Ramsey Lewis
Jazz legend Ramsey Lewis chats with PopMatters 20 Questions about feeding the spirit and living in the moment.
Monday, October 5 2009
20 Questions: Vic Chesnutt
Chesnutt talks to PopMatters 20 Questions about his upcoming work with Jonathan Richman, taking advice from Michael Stipe, and how his copy of Number One Hits of the Sixties is still the greatest album of all time.
Monday, September 14 2009
20 Questions: Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby tells PopMatters 20 Questions about his affiliation with Seinfeld’s George Costanza, his soon-to-be-released album with Ben Folds, and this great bargain he got from a Russian website…
Thursday, September 10 2009
20 Questions: Terence Blanchard
The cerebral, soulful, three-time Grammy award winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard tells us how our turbulent, dynamic world inspires his beautiful music.
Thursday, September 3 2009
20 Questions: Charlie Louvin
Back in 2009, Charlie Louvin, Country Music Hall of Fame legend and half of the immortal country duo the Louvin Brothers, told PopMatters 20 Questions about the best thing he ever got – for only $3.
Thursday, August 27 2009
20 Questions: Wayne Hancock
The master of juke joint swing performs like a visiting country doctor, or maybe a preacher, ministering to the rural folks in three-hour, boogie healing woogie doses. Here a little shot is given to us...
Tuesday, August 11 2009
20 Questions: Christopher O’Riley
Critically acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley’s recording of Nirvana’s "Heart Shaped Box" will "engender sustained hearing loss, under repeated and hi-res sound reproduction."
Tuesday, August 4 2009
20 Questions: James Rollins
Best-selling author James Rollins reveals a talent to PopMatters 20 Questions not otherwise seen in his many books -- beware, kitties and politicians, lest he approach you wielding a scalpel.
Tuesday, July 28 2009
20 Questions: Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw chats with PopMatters 20 Questions about the cultural offerings, high and not so high, that he gets a kick out of -- from to Duke Ellington to Captain Beefheart.
Thursday, July 23 2009
20 Questions: Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of killer crime fiction and award-winning author of young readers’ books, rather fancies himself a bit like George Clooney and Harold, of Harold and His Purple Crayon -- sans the blanket, of course.
Wednesday, July 15 2009
20 Questions: Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper advises travelers, “Never mind the nuclear reactors in the distance, it’s heaven in the Midwest” – and other tips for PopMatters 20 Questions readers.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
20 Questions: Eleni Mandell
Acclaimed songwriter Eleni Mandell answers PopMatters ‘Miss America’-like 20 Questions with self-deprecating humor.
Tuesday, June 23 2009
20 Questions: Aleksandar Hemon
“Hell,” Hemon tells PopMatters 20 Questions, “is being stuck at an airport without a book, starving for thought, forced to watch CNN.” Heaven might be a bathtub full of Turkish coffee …
Tuesday, June 16 2009
20 Questions: Crayton Robey
The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Monday, June 8 2009
20 Questions: Nona Hendryx
In 1962, Nona Hendryx shared a bill with everyone from Bo Diddley to the Marvelettes. She took some time with PopMatters to talk about Buster Crabbe and her knack for fixing TVs.
Tuesday, June 2 2009
20 Questions: Dave Wakeling
Dave Wakeling, founding member, lead vocalist and songwriter for the legendary ska band, the English Beat, is recording and touring extensively these days. Catch up with Wakeling here on 20 Questions.
Monday, May 18 2009
20 Questions: Christopher Potter
Christopher Potter captures the universe as we know it between the covers of his compelling book, You Are Here, but closer to home, it's Doctor Who that captures his fancy.
Monday, May 11 2009
20 Questions: Zachary Richard
Zachary Richard’s Cajun accordion speaks to the heart. Let that sound get in your ear and you’ll be out of your chair and on your feet before you can say Laissez le bon temps rouler!
