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.
Heather
McElhatton St. Louis Park, MN Interviewed by Stephanie
Wilbur Ash & Geoff Herbach MPR | Pretty
Little Mistakes
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.
Dennis Cass Minneapolis,
MN Interviewed by Stephanie
Wilbur Ash & Geoff Herbach Blog
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
other way.
Sandy
Beach Minneapolis, MN Interviewed by Geoff Herbach Web
site
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.
Megan
Mayer Minneapolis, MN Interviewed by Geoff Herbach
Website
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.
Watch
clip of "Scout"
Scott
Seekins Minneapolis, MN Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Photos
by Karen Kopacz
Special thanks to Jeff Kearns for technical audio assistance.
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.
