On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Michael Wheaton interviews Katharine Coldiron.

Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials, an SPD bestseller; Plan 9 from Outer Space, a monograph; and Junk Film, a collection of critical essays. Her work as a critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the Houston Chronicle, Brevity, the Believer, and many other places; as a hybrid essayist, she has placed work in Conjunctions, the Rupture, the Offing, and elsewhere. She is the reviews editor at Barrelhouse and the managing editor of X-R-A-Y.

Michael Wheaton is the publisher of Autofocus Books and producer of this podcast.

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PART ONE, topics include:

-- living in the unfashionable part of LA

-- being able to stop full time work

-- writing and watching movies

-- editing reviews at Barrelhouse

-- being able to dish out editing but not being able to take it

-- managing editing at X-R-A-Y

-- cross-stitching

-- Autofocus's How to Write a Novel anthology

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PART TWO, topics include:

-- parapsychology and Ghostbusters

-- an anthology of millennial writing on Poltergeist

-- getting the writing bug and the movie bug

-- Star Wars

-- old Hollywood

-- quitting and coming back to writing

-- the move into hybrid writing

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PART THREE , topics include:

-- the critical essay collection JUNK FILM

-- the problem of (not) defining good and bad

-- the word 'junk'

-- Plan 9 from Outerspace

-- bad film as an ecosystem

-- straight to VHS vs straight DVD movies

-- the role of delusion in artmaking

-- (not) distinguishing good and bad taste

-- trying to resist looking on with pity

-- cinematic grammar (not) translating to writing

-- a novel in progress about Ilsa

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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.

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