I worked the last week of September in Hyderabad (HITEC City) and Bangalore (Silicon Valley of India). Both areas have very interesting cultures with the intersection of IT. Read about my trip to India on my travel blog.
Interview with Ise Lyfe published on theRumpus.net
My interview with Oakland hip hop artist, playwright, and community educator Ise Lyfe was published on the literary website the Rumpus last month. Click here for the interview.
Google Books blog post about Jorge Luis Borges Doodle
Today I published a blog post on the Google Books blog honoring Jorge Luis Borges’s 112th birthday, to correspond with the doodle honoring Borges at http://www.google.com.
Read the post here: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/peering-into-jorge-luis-borgess.html
Self-Publishing: How I did it
I spoke at Google this week on my experiences with self-publishing. I’ve also written a series of blog posts titled Memoirs of the Self-Published, which describe my self-publishing process. Here’s the video of me speaking at Google:
Papers for the Suppression of Reality to be published on March 1, 2011
Matt Werner’s first book of short stories, Papers for the Suppression of Reality, co-authored with Dr. Shaka Freeman will hit bookstores on March 1, 2011. The book is being published by Thought Publishing. You can pre-order a copy of the book here: http://thoughtpublishing.org/purchase/
Interview with Pale Kid who raps fast: George Watsky
DJ Matt Werner’s exclusive interview with spoken-word artist George Watsky, originally aired on Fresh Air: The Alternative on November 11, 2008.
In this interview, rising hip hop sensation, writer, and performer George Watsky addresses his beef with Michael Cera, and his experiences performing on the Def Poetry Jam, and working with Robert Redford in sustainability. This podcast also features 6 of Watsky’s tracks and poems: Lonely Hearts Club, Half Jewish, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Fight! Fight! Fight! (with Dahlak Brathwaite), Run My Mouth, and his Michael Cera diss track.
Also, check out his website http://georgewatsky.com/ for some funny blog entries, like this one: The Whitest, Least Famous person performing at the NAACP Image Awards…. He has a stop-motion video for I Got This Love and a popular video called Pale kid raps fast:
(Right click and select “Save Link As” to download the large, 89 MB mp3 audio file)
Click on the player to listen to the 40-minute interview and feature on writer and performing artist George Watsky.
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