M. T. Anderson interview at 7-Imp.

From the interview:

M.T.: I really try to immerse myself in the linguistic world I’m portraying. So for Feed, I soaked myself in tangy pop brine: teen fashion magazines, issues of Maxim, and so on. After an hour or two reading the hip blather in Maxim –- updates on body hair, sex advice (“Learn her name”; “Try being in the same room with her during intercourse”), articles on “cool gear,” photo-shoots of waifs, plugs for cologne, hair gel, and portable tazers –- I was such a complete blithering idiot that it wasn’t difficult to write in a linguistically impoverished, dumb-ass style.

Read the rest at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.  Read it, I tell you!  It's fabulous.

(via Oz and Ends)

And if you missed it (how??), be sure to watch John Green/ M.T. Anderson turn into Bad Boy Lawbreakers on Brotherhood 2.0:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZmFHxxijo]

That's it.  I have to officially start adding real people (rather than just fictional characters) to my Literary Crush List.