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 "In clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor, Di Blasi imparts her understanding of love's multiple ironies." -The New York Times Book Review
"Di Blasi has a mind unlike anyone else writing fiction today, and this [The Jiri Chronicles] is her finest work yet." –Kevin Prufer, editor, Pleiades
"Beware, reader, you're in for a sumptuous, hypertextual, hypercharged ride. Hyperion himself would smile." –David Hamilton, Editor, The Iowa Review
"Both Di Blasi's style and her objective distance and comprehension of her chosen subject mark her as a very psychologically driven, very talented writer." –Publishers Weekly
“With The Jirí Chronicles one gets the sense that Di Blasi saw the divide between what she wanted to do and what she’d achieved and said something like the hell with it, taking a torch to old ways of writing stories, and the result is by far the most interesting thing she’s done…. It’s a huge step for Di Blasi, and a welcome one.” –Tim Feeney, Review of Contemporary FictionNEW RELEASE from Jaded Ibis Press
Aunt Pig of Puglia, by Patricia Catto
"A stunning valentine to story telling." – Catherine Browder, author of Secret Lives
"Patricia Catto applies an impeccable ear and a Coppola-like eye to paint a wonderfully exquisite, moving memoir of the Italian-American experience." – Joey Nicoletti, author of Cannoli Gangster
"With surpassing compassion, Catto animates the mothers, fathers, seers, ne’er-do-wells, misanthropes and heroes, whose sincerity and humor bring the lost world of Aunt Pig to spiny, sweet, crackling life." – George Guida, author of New York and Other Lovers: Poems
Davis Schneiderman and Don Meyer
Memorials to Future Catastrophes
"Critical and amusing, important and engaging." –American Book Review
Davis Schneiderman's and Don Meyer's extraordinary CD is the first phase of a multimedia collaboration that suggests catastrophes in a world increasingly cordoned off by the representative fears of terrorism, bio-disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.
UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
October 14-17, 2009: Buffalo, NY – Panelist at &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing & Art &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing & Art.
October 26-November 12, 2009: Cape Town, South Africa
April 7-10, 2010: Denver, CO – Panelist at Associated Writing Programs Conference
Summer, 2010: Fresno, CA – Teaching "Hybrid Fictions Workshop" California State University Summer Arts Program.
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Interviewed by David Hoenigman for Word Riot.Debra's mixed media story, Quell the Mayhem Night, won the Diagram's innovative fiction award and will be published with the seven other finalists in a forthcoming issue. Kelly Link, author of Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners, was this year's judge. The annual prize awards $1000 to the winner, and Diagram apparel to finalists. Next year's judge is Brian Evenson.
Debra's mixed media fiction, "Sprung Up in the Years Since," appears in the anthology, Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century.
New mixed media fiction, "It's Okay To Stare," appears in the resurrected Exquisite Corpse.
Excerpt from Drought appears in a new anthology of poetry about rape: The Why and Later, edited by Carly Sachs (Deep Cleveland Press).
Debra interviewed by Dr. Kent Gustavson on Sound Authors.
Debra Di Blasi received an Inspiration Grant from The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City. The $900 grant will help pay for expenses to attend the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing & Art.
An essay about fairy tales by the real Jirí Cêch appears in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales.LISTEN to Laura Spencer of NPR discussing the exhibition "Beasts," with comments by artists, including Debra Di Blasi.
Interview with editor Robert Stewart discusses the willingness of New Letters to publish innovative writing in the journal.October 2, 2006 review of Drought & Say What You Like now at Ron Silliman's Blog.Common misspellings & mispronunciations of my name:
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3. Interviews
Interviewed by Dr. Kent.
Interview on Sound Authors, hosted by Dr. Kent Gustavson - December 7, 2007
Interviewed by Steve Paul of The Kansas City Star.
Talks about The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions.
Madhatters Review
Madhatters' Review; interviewed by Marc Lowe
Interview with Debra Di Blasi.
Influences, experimental writing, publishing, at writester.net.
2. Fiction online
Personal Effects
In Mad Hatters' Review, with audio excerpt
"What the Crow Delivers"
featured in sleepingfish.net.
"Seed"
Winner in Big Ugly Review.
"Machine Ghosts"
finalist in Drunken Boat's Panliterary Awards
"King of the Jungle and Rock & Roll"
Short-short story at zygoteinmycoffee.
Bridge: A Story for the Season
Winter season story commissioned by The Kansas City Star
1. Books by Debra
6. Nonfiction online
CONCEPTUAL WRITING
Definition and examples of conceptual writing by preeminant U.S. writers
Gass Pain
A humorous and informative analysis of William H. Gass's novel, "The Tunnel".
Music & Audio
Download music.
CDs and DVDs of music, interviews and weirdness by Jirí Cêch, Ümlaut, et al. Also get a list of sites from which you can download music.
Poetry
"Petroleum / God"
"Petroleum / God" in The Melic Review
"Ways A Father Dies"
Prose poem published in The Melic Review.
Visual Art
Paintings & Drawings
Paintings and drawings from the series, "muons, gluons, pions & strings: Homage to edward Witten."
Translation
A multi-media installation
4. Screenplays
DROUGHT
Watch a clip of the award-winning film.
5. Art criticism
Art Columns
Link to all art reviews by Debra Di Blasi
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