Today in X-RAY Literary Magazine: Mike Thorn on film with Rebecca Gransden
Calm and Chaos: An Interview with Rebeccah Love by Mike Thorn (In Review Online)
Preceded by Ripe, Parlour Palm, and A Woman’s Block, Eve’s Parade is filmmaker Rebeccah Love’s final entry in a quartet of films depicting women who struggle against societal expectations, fall into madness, and recover with the help of neighbours. The first three films in this quartet have played through TIFF, VIFF, FNC, and CBC; been featured in the Montreal Gazette, the Psychiatric Eye (the Royal College of Psychiatry’s quarterly publication, UK); and premiered alongside talks by CAMH’s Chief Psychiatrists. In May, Love has been invited to deliver talks in London and Cambridge, UK through the NHS and residents’ associations about her creative depictions of psychosis and her vision for community crisis care.
Eve Parade will premiere on April 16 at the Paradise Theatre in Toronto. Author and film critic Mike Thorn sat down with Love to discuss her political and artistic visions, aesthetics, and form in Eve’s Parade, and her quartet’s various thematic concerns.
DAILY DEAD Q&A: Author Mike Thorn Discusses His New Short Story Collection PEEL BACK AND SEE
Mike Thorn Discusses “Havoc” on Staring Into the Abyss
“Author Mike Thorn returns to the Abyss for a wide-ranging discussion about depression, the perils of social media, and “Havoc,” the opening story from his latest collection, Peel Back and See.
Before we sink into Mike’s story, we talk a bit about Netflix’s Squid Game, parenting tips, online petitions to alter art, Alastair Reynolds, Dune (2021), final thoughts on Hunter Shea’s Faithless, You Season 3, Hostel, and more! (Recorded Oct. 24, 2021).”
Mike Thorn Returns to Sister Luna Podcast
“Our first ever returning guest Mike Thorn is back to talk about his new short story collection Peel Back And See. This book is an incredibly raw and truthful horror collection that was mostly written during the unprecedented times we’ve been living in for the last 2 years.”
Mike Thorn Interviewed About Peel Back and See in The Gauntlet
“When you have the wide open world of a fictional medium, you can allow yourself to explore, to be a little bit reckless and go to some really uncomfortable places. Peel Back and See probably goes further, in terms of my discomfort as a writer, than either of my previous books. We’ll see how readers feel about that, but it was liberating for me.”
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