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Dennis Cass Minneapolis,
MN
Interviewed by Stephanie Wilber Ash & Geoff
Herbach | Blog
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Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist and occasional teacher and
public speaker. His work has appeared in the New York Times
Magazine, GQ, Slate, Harper's Magazine and Restaurant
Business, where he once wrote an informative, exceptionally
well-crafted article about pudding. Of late, he's been on tour
hawking his brain book: "Head Case: How I Almost Lost My
Mind Trying To Understand My Brain." He lives with
his wife and son in Minneapolis, MN, and wouldn't have it any
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Heather McElhatton St.
Louis Park, MN
Interviewed by Stephanie Wilber Ash & Geoff
Herbach | MPR | Pretty
Little Mistakes
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Heather McElhatton is an independent radio producer and host for Minnesota
Public Radio and Public
Radio International. Her novel, Pretty Little Mistakes (out
in May, from Harper Collins), is the first choose-your-own-adventure
novel for adults. It's also her first published novel, but not
the first one she's written. Here, she talks fate, choice, writing
maniacally and how it feels to rise from the ashes of your own
perceived failures and then write a book that allows the reader
to both fail and succeed.
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Frank
Warren Germantown, Maryland
Interviewed by Stephanie Ash
and Geoff Herbach | PostSecret |
Photo courtesy of the author
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Frank Warren is the creator of the popular blog PostSecret, an online
collection of 4 x 6 postcards displaying secrets sent to him from
strangers all over the world. The blog gets 2.3 million unique visitors
a month, is counted as one of the top blogs in the country and has
spawned four books. The third
"The Secret Lives of Men and Women," is currently a New
York Times bestseller.
Frank calls himself an "accidental artist." Expecting to receive about
a hundred postcard secrets for his small community art project, he has received
hundreds of thousands. Posting 10-20 postcards every Sunday, he takes care to
preserve the strangers' anonymity, humanity and artfulness. The result is a
cathartic mass intimacy, made possible only by the marriage of the Internet and
the post office. |
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Sandy Beach Minneapolis,
MN
Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Web
site
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Sandy Beach was awarded a month's residency to the Ezra Pound Center
for Literature in Merano, Italy in 2005. As a Loft Mentor participant,
she studied and read with poet Elizabeth Alexander. She writes and
reads poetry in response to art at various Minneapolis galleries
with TalkingImageConnection.
Her poems have appeared in Water-Stone Review, the anthology To
Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days
to the Present, Sojourn Journal, Perigee, Poetry
Motel, and the National Women’s Art Museum Archives in
Washington, D.C. |
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Megan Mayer Minneapolis,
MN
Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Web
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Megan Mayer is a choreographer and dancer originally from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Childhood preoccupations included ballet, disco,
piano, viola and mimicking comedy routines, all of which helped
to shape what would become her future choreographic voice.
Megan's work has premiered at Walker Art Center, Bryant-Lake
Bowl Theater, Bedlam Theater, Southern Theater, Creative Electric
Studios and Hennepin Center for the Arts Studio 6A. She frequently
choreographs out of her kitchen, and has a new solo work to
premiere entitled "Unfit,"
which appears to be an intermingling of John McEnroe and bossa nova.
Geoff and Megan talked on the hottest day of the summer in a terribly
hot office. |
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Scott Seekins Minneapolis,
MN
Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Photos
by Karen Kopacz
Special thanks to Jeff Kearns for technical audio assistance.
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Scott Seekins is everywhere in the Twin Cities. You will see
him at an art opening in Northeast. You will see him at a bus stop
in St. Paul. You will see him in a bowling alley in Uptown. You will
see him at his open studio downtown. You will see him holding cardboard
signs in front of the Walker Art Center, sending enigmatic messages
to the flow of traffic in front. Now you will hear him on your computer. |
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