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Jim Knipfel
Jim Knipfel is an American novelist, autobiographer, and journalist.
An Interview with Michael Lesy
Jim Knipfel
An Interview With David Holthouse
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Interviews
An Interview with Joyce Meadows
Jim Knipfel
An Interview with Danny Hellman
Jim Knipfel
Beckett Meets Melville: An Interview With Conor and Judy Hegarty Lovett
Jim Knipfel
An Interview with Derek Davis
Jim Knipfel
Interviews
An Interview with Steve Erickson
Jim Knipfel
Tattoo Vampires
Jim Knipfel
Fictionalizing The Residents
Jim Knipfel
This Binary Moment: Novelist Steve Erickson on Our Cold Civil War
Jim Knipfel
The Nowhere Man Who Was Everywhere
Jim Knipfel
A Tourist’s Guide to Rocaterrania
Jim Knipfel
Recording Mr. Pynchon
Jim Knipfel
Visit to a Nørb Planet: on the Philosopher-King of the Punk Rock Geeks, Rev. Nørb
Jim Knipfel
Angels and Demons at Play
Jim Knipfel
Chomsky Does Not Make Movies: an Interview with Filmmaker Craig Baldwin
Jim Knipfel
Postponing Postmodernism
Jim Knipfel
The Monster Behind the Door
Jim Knipfel
Video Monks: Jim Knipfel on Bootleggers of Obscure Films
Jim Knipfel
The fallout after the raid at Kim’s represented a loss not only to local film lovers, who found themselves confronted with Kim’s abruptly and surprisingly sparse ...Who Will Think of the Children?: Jim Knipfel on Satire and Children’s Books
Jim Knipfel
Thomas Bernhard Speaks: Jim Knipfel on Thomas Bernhard: Three Days
Jim Knipfel
The Battles for Ellis Island, 1970-1977: Jim Knipfel on Native American Protests
Jim Knipfel
The Céline Blacklist: Jim Knipfel on Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Jim Knipfel
King of the Midnight Spook Shows
Jim Knipfel
The Accidental Father of Mashup Culture: Jim Knipfel on Todd Graham and Apocalypse Pooh
Jim Knipfel
NYC has seen its share of riots, but none quite like this.
Jim Knipfel
“Study who you are. It’s a futile journey but it’s all you can ever hope to know.”
Jim Knipfel
An Interview With David Holthouse
Jim Knipfel
Apr 2 2021
David Holthouse in Hulu's Sasquatch (Courtesy of Hulu) In 1978, seven-year-old David Holthouse was living in Alaska when he was raped by his parents' ...An Interview with Joyce Meadows
Jim Knipfel
Feb 1 2021
In her second feature film, twenty-two-year-old Joyce Meadows starred as Sally Fallon, the levelheaded and good-humored fiancée of an atomic scientist (played by B movie ...An Interview with Danny Hellman
Jim Knipfel
Mar 18 2020
"Pretending to be living people is fun but perilous, pretending to be imaginary people is fun and far less risky." Two Faces Danny Hellman Did Not Like Drawing: Kevin ...Beckett Meets Melville: An Interview With Conor and Judy Hegarty Lovett
Jim Knipfel
Sep 20 2019
"Americans are people too, Jim." Challenges presented in adapting Beckett and Melville for the stage: Who speaks? Who is speaking? Moby Dick is a long book. Husband and wife ...An Interview with Derek Davis
Jim Knipfel
May 8 2019
"I don’t think about my teacup, I just use it." Writing: Is a way to be somebody, instead of nobody Helps start the woodstove (when written on paper) Can drive Derek Davis ...An Interview with Steve Erickson
Jim Knipfel
Feb 1 2019
Steve Erickson completed the first draft of his latest novel, Shadowbahn, the same month Donald Trump officially announced his presidential candidacy. Immediately after its ...Tattoo Vampires
Jim Knipfel
Dec 28 2018
Originally published in 1989, RE/Search Publications’ Modern Primitives turned out to be far more popular than anyone could have expected from a book about tattoos, piercing, ...Fictionalizing The Residents
Jim Knipfel
Oct 23 2018
The Residents announced their presence on the subcultural landscape in 1972 with the release of Santa Dog, a four-song double single that was simultaneously catchy, abrasive, ...This Binary Moment: Novelist Steve Erickson on Our Cold Civil War
Jim Knipfel
Sep 10 2018
“Repel the forces of darkness now and sort out utopia later.” As we crawl toward the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, award-winning novelist Steve ...The Nowhere Man Who Was Everywhere
Jim Knipfel
May 29 2018
In Philip Wylie's 1930 pulp novel Gladiator, a scientist living in a small town in Colorado develops a serum designed to reorganize the genetic structure of any living ...A Tourist’s Guide to Rocaterrania
Jim Knipfel
Jan 22 2018
Ronald Kuhler was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1931, the second child of an abusive Belgian mother and an often absent German father.Recording Mr. Pynchon
Jim Knipfel
Nov 30 2017
In late March of 1997, while working as a receptionist at an alternative newspaper in Manhattan, I was asked to sign for a package from Henry Holt & Co.Visit to a Nørb Planet: on the Philosopher-King of the Punk Rock Geeks, Rev. Nørb
Jim Knipfel
Aug 24 2017
“Rocket To Russia is the exact same length as Cheap Trick’s In Color album—29:32—which was also my jean size at the time. You never know. What if there’s a quiz?”Angels and Demons at Play
Jim Knipfel
Jul 19 2017
“I’m a spirit master,” avant-garde jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra once said in his own inimitable fashion. “I’ve been to a zone where there ...Chomsky Does Not Make Movies: an Interview with Filmmaker Craig Baldwin
Jim Knipfel
Jun 29 2017
One way to think about San Francisco-based filmmaker, archivist, and artist Craig Baldwin is as the dialectical result of a collision between the Dadaists, the Situationists, ...Postponing Postmodernism
Jim Knipfel
Jun 1 2017
In the early 1940s, a full two decades before French intellectuals identified postmodernism as a self-reflexive, intertextual, metahistorical, and metafictional way of ...The Monster Behind the Door
Jim Knipfel
Apr 26 2017
“The last picture in the book is of this steamer belching smoke with all these cows in the foreground. The people who made that picture and then published it thought it ...Video Monks: Jim Knipfel on Bootleggers of Obscure Films
Jim Knipfel
Mar 22 2017
The fallout after the raid at Kim’s represented a loss not only to local film lovers, who found themselves confronted with Kim’s abruptly and surprisingly sparse ...Who Will Think of the Children?: Jim Knipfel on Satire and Children’s Books
Jim Knipfel
Jan 13 2017
This past September, the Abrams’ imprint Image, which specializes in illustrated and reference works, published a novelty book entitled Bad Little Children’s Books by the ...Thomas Bernhard Speaks: Jim Knipfel on Thomas Bernhard: Three Days
Jim Knipfel
Dec 22 2016
“To make oneself understood is impossible; it cannot be done.”The Battles for Ellis Island, 1970-1977: Jim Knipfel on Native American Protests
Jim Knipfel
Dec 5 2016
In March of 1963, Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay was closed down, and the few prisoners who still remained were transferred to other facilities. As per standard ...The Céline Blacklist: Jim Knipfel on Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Jim Knipfel
Nov 14 2016
At the time of his death in 1961, French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline remained an extraordinarily controversial and contradictory figure.King of the Midnight Spook Shows
Jim Knipfel
Oct 25 2016
Jim Knipfel on Dr. Silkini’s Asylum of Horrors Around the turn of the Twentieth century, the American public’s desperate, insatiable fascination with spiritualism and its ...The Accidental Father of Mashup Culture: Jim Knipfel on Todd Graham and Apocalypse Pooh
Jim Knipfel
Aug 25 2016
Todd Graham grew up in the small town of Peterborough, Ontario in the 1970s, where he spent his formative years warping his mind with MAD, National Lampoon, and Heavy Metal ...NYC has seen its share of riots, but none quite like this.
Jim Knipfel
Aug 16 2016
Jim Knipfel on the Straw Hat Riots of 1922 The history of New York City has been peppered with more than its share of memorable riots. If you take folk historian Herbert ...“Study who you are. It’s a futile journey but it’s all you can ever hope to know.”
Jim Knipfel
Aug 9 2016
A still from Orson Welles’ 1946 film, Lady from Shanghai An Interview with Pere Ubu’s David Thomas In 1974, musician, composer, writer, actor, director (etc.), David ...
