Stephen Elliott Interviews Stephen Elliott, Insults Fly

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February 7, 2010

“Stephen Elliott: I don’t generally hook up with people when I first meet them. And also, when you’re on the road, I don’t know, it’s kind of awkward. What I long for when I travel isn’t sex, it’s intimacy. I don’t know if you can have intimacy with someone you just met. Why are we talking about this?

SE: You’re interviewing yourself. You know that don’t you?

SE: Yes. I’m sorry.”

Our own Stephen Elliott’s got a pretty damn funny Self-Interview over at The Nervous Breakdown.

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Seth Fischer

Seth Fischerâ€™s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writerâ€™s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

One response

Hugh Thomas Patterson

May 30, 2010

I tried to interview myself once. However, a fight broke out after the first extremely personal question. I was forced to leave the room. I didn’t speak to myself for two months, instead passing messages to myself through my wife. It ended with therapy. Never again.