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Thursday, April 7, 2005

Online multimedia short "Craziest"

"Craziest" is an intriguing first in a series of short stories offered online in Flash and in audio podcast. The subject, loosely speaking: braniacs who think too much. Editor Liz Dubelman sez:

The inspiration for CRAZIEST came one day while I was listening to Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW (my local NPR station). I am an NPR junkie. I feel lonely when I don’t have it on in my car or streaming out of my computer speakers. Anyway, his guest was Myla Goldberg, who wrote "The Bee Season." I thought, if spelling bee champions are weird, Scrabble players are at least as weird. I began to explore people who build “thought castles” people who take thinking too far. What would make someone need to create her own order? Who would that person be that would have such a strong need for magical thinking?

Link to CRAZIEST, and here's the vidlit project site: Link (Thanks, redjar)

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