adam d jameson, writer of amazing adult fantasy (mutable sound) and giant slugs (lawrence and gibson), lets plain wrap get to know him better. this is the eleventh installment of plain wrap’s interview series in which plain wrap interviews all its facebook friends. thank you adam d jameson.

1. Tell us about yourself?

1. I’m primarily a writer, or at least self-identify as such. I’ve published two books: a story collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy (Mutable Sound, 2011), and a novel, Giant Slugs (Lawrence and Gibson, 2011). I’ve written three more that I’m currently trying to publish, and I’m working on several more.

http://adjameson.com/amazingadultfantasy.html
http://adjameson.com/giantslugs.html

I’ve also written lots of book and movie reviews. I’ve also been contributing pretty regularly for the past two years to the group blog Big Other—posts about movies and music and comics and other literature, as well as some more theoretical thoughts about culture, and how it progresses.

http://bigother.com/

And I used to make music videos and other video art. Maybe someday I’ll get back to doing that.

Other than that, I’m 34 years old. I’m from Scranton, Pennsylvania. For a while I lived in Bangkok, Thailand. Now I live in Chicago. I’m something of an exercise/fitness nut. I walk a lot, all over the place.

2. Have you read any good books lately?

2. Yes! Most recently:
.. Stephen Moore: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 (Continuum, 2010)
.. Kyle Gann: No Such Thing as Silence (Yale UP, 2010)
.. Jack Vance: The Dying Earth (1950)

I also read a mostly-finished novel manuscript by my friend Colin Winnette, entitled “Gainesville.” It’s excellent!

Now I’m reading Mark McGurl’s The Program Era (Harvard UP, 2009), for school (I’m starting a PhD program at UIC next week). Looks interesting.

3. Why did you leave your last job?

3. To return to school.

4. What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?

4. Not enough! Though I did publish two books, so I learned something about that. And I’ve been watching TV, while at the gym. That may sound like the opposite of education, but I’ve watched very little TV, so it’s been instructive.

I also did a long series of posts at Big other, “What Were You Doing in 1979?”, where I surveyed the music, books, and movies came out that year—as many as I could find. That gave me a much better understanding of what a lot of people were up to thirty-two years ago. (I’m very interested in that time period, as analog started giving way to digital; it’s also the first year I can really remember.)

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/what-were-you-doing-in-1979/

5. Tell us about the most fun you have had in life?

5. Answering these questions! No, seriously, I just try to enjoy everything.