Exhibit X Guests and Sounds Archives

JOANNA SCOTT April 19, 2007 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		JOANNA SCOTT is the author of seven novels, including Liberation, Tourmaline, Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and a collection of short fiction, Various Antidotes. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harpers, Esquire, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and other journals. Her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN-Faulkner, and the LA Times Book Award. Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her new collection of short fiction, Everybody Loves Somebody, was published by Little, Brown in December, 2006.
SHELLEY JACKSON March 30, 2007 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		SHELLEY JACKSON was extracted from the bum leg of a water buffalo in 1963 in the Philippines and grew up complaining in Berkeley, California. She has spent most of her life in used bookstores, smearing unidentified substances on their spines, and is duly obsessed with books: paper, glue, and ink. Nonetheless, she is most widely recognized for an electronic text, Patchwork Girl, a hypertext reworking of the Frankenstein myth, and for SKIN, a story published in tattoos on the skin of volunteers. Meanwhile, her fiction has been appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and on many restaurant napkins. Her first book, The Melancholy of Anatomy, was published by Anchor in April 2002. Shelley Jackson also illustrates children's books, including two of her own, The Old Woman and the Wave and Sophia, the Alchemist's Dog. Her new novel, Half Life, was published by Harper Collins in 2006.

SAMUEL R. DELANY March 23, 2006 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		SAMUEL R. DELANY is a novelist, critic, and Professor of English at Temple University. His books include Dhalgren (1975), The Mad Man (1994), Atlantis: Three Tales (1995), and his bestselling study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999). For his fiction and nonfiction he has been recognized with Hugo and Nebula awards. He has also received the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. He lives in New York.
LANCE OLSEN March 24, 2006 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		LANCE OLSEN is the author of eight novels (most recently Nietzsche's Kisses), one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Olsen is an N.E.A. fellowship and Pushcart prize recipient, and former Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two and lives somatically with his wife, assemblage-artist Andi Olsen, in the mountains of central Idaho, digitally at www.lanceolsen.com.

RIKKI DUCORNET November 8, 2005 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		RIKKI DUCORNET is the author of seven novels including The Fan Maker's Inquisition, an L.A. Times Book of the Year, and The Jade Cabinet, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She has illustrated books by Robert Coover and Jorge Luis Borges. Her lithographs, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Museau National de Cestro Coimbra, Portugal, the Fine Arts museums of West Berlin, Ixelles, Brno and Lille, and in the Biblioteque Nationale. In 1993 she received the Lannan Literary Award in Fiction. She teaches at the University of Denver.
DIANE WILLIAMS October 18, 2005 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		DIANE WILLIAM'S most recent book of fiction is Romancer Erector. Her other books include: Excitability: Selected Stories; This is About the Body, The Mind, The World, Time, and Fate; Some Sexual Success Stories, Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear; and The Stupefaction. She is the founding editor of the literary annual Noon.

LYDIA DAVIS April 11, 2005 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		LYDIA DAVIS is a 2003 MacCarthur Fellow, is the author of the novel The End of the Story and three volumes of short fiction, the latest of which is Samuel Johnson is Indignant. She is also the translator of numerous works by Maurice Blanchot, Michael Leiris, Piere Jean Jouve, and many others and was recently named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
KATHRYN DAVIS March 28, 2005 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		KATHRYN DAVIS is the recipient of a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman and the 1999 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her many novels include: The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, and Versailles (among others). Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont.
STEVE TOMASULA December 2, 2004 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		STEVE TOMASULA'S short fiction has appeared widely and most recently in McSweeney's, Fiction International, and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre. His essays on body art and culture appear in Leonardo (M.I.T. Press) and other magazines both here and in Europe. He is the author of the novels IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2003) and VAS: An Opera in Flatland (Station Hill, 2003/ University of Chicago Press, 2004).
BEN MARCUS October 26, 2004 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		BEN MARCUS is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. Most recently he has edited The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. He teaches at Columbia.
SHELLEY JACKSON April 8, 2004 http://www.ineradicablestain.com (read some stuff!)		SHELLEY JACKSON is the author of the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the acclaimed hypertexts Patchwork Girl, The Doll Games and My Body, and several children's books. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Grand Street, Conjunctions and The Paris Review, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Howard Foundation grant. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the Pratt Institute and the New School. She is currently tattooing a story on volunteers, one word at a time.
MARY CAPONEGRO February 26, 2004 Conjunctions Audio Vault		MARY CAPONEGRO is an experimental fiction writer whose collections include Tales from the Next Village, the Star Cafe, Five Doubts, and The Complexities of Intimacy. Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 1992, and is also the recipient of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and the Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters She has taught at Brown University, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart & William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College.
PAUL LAFARGE November 20, 2003 WBFO 88.7fm interview (with Mary Van Vorst)		PAUL LAFARGE is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing (1999) and Haussmann, or the Distinction, a New York Times "Notable Book" when it was published in 2001. His stories have appeared in Story, Conjunctions, and McSweeney's. LaFarge was a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow. He is currently working on his third novel, about aviators, stand-up comedians, and languages not in general use. He lives out of his car.
BRIAN EVENSON October 3, 2003 Interview and Reading Selections		BRIAN EVENSON is the author of seven books of fiction, including The Wavering Knife, Altmann’s Tongue, Father of Lies, Contagion, and Dark Property. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an O. Henry Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Third Bed, The Southern Review, and a number of other magazines. He teaches in Brown University’s Creative Writing Program, and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions.

"In this future universe of the novel, gestures and objects will be there before being something; and they will still be there afterwards, hard, unalterable, eternally present, mocking their own ‘meaning.’ Exhibit X ‘gives us’ a clear image of this situation. Though [it] may conceal a mystery, or betray it, the [X] element which make[s] a mockery of systems has only one serious, obvious quality, which is to be there."
from "A Future for the Novel" by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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PERCIVAL EVERETT March 22, 2007 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		PERCIVAL EVERETT is the author of fifteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and one volume of poetry. Among his novels are Erasure, Glyph, Wounded, and A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. In addition to writing, Everett is a painter, a woodworker and a flyfisherman. He trains mules on his ranch outside of Los Angeles and teaches at the University of Southern California.
DAVE KRESS February 21, 2007 STREAMING VIDEO (Requires Real Player)		DAVE KRESS is the author of two works of fiction: Counting Zero, a novel, and Martians, a creature. A new novel, Glorified-or-Thermometers of God, is forthcoming. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine-Orono, where he teaches creative writing and contemporary literature.