{"id":1188,"date":"2012-12-10T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-12-10T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:41:37","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e25-feel-literary-with-adrian-todd-zuniga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E25: Feel Literary with Adrian Todd Zuniga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1189\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"adriantoddzuniga\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/adriantoddzuniga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at Hugo&#8217;s Tacos in Los Angeles&#8217; Atwater Village with Adrian Todd Zuniga, founding editor of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opiummagazine.com\/\">Opium<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opiummagazine.com\/\">\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0and impresario behind the international reading series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarydeathmatch.com\/\">Literary Death Match<\/a>. They discuss what might make Los Angeles &#8220;the new Berlin&#8221;; his aim to make the city the literary center of the world by 2022; the hatred that flows into Los Angeles, but not out of it; <em>Literary Death Match TV<\/em>, the project that moved him here, and his battle against the idea of its being &#8220;too smart for television&#8221;; December 12th&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarydeathmatch.com\/upcoming-events\/category\/ldm-tv-the-pilot\">live pilot shoot<\/a> at Hollywood&#8217;s Florentine Gardens;\u00a0his experiences putting on Literary Death Matches in cities like Tulsa, Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Beijing; his love of his collaboration, whether or not it comes from growing up as the last of eight kids and always wanting to hang out with the most interesting people; how to &#8220;explode what literature is in the current pop culture landscape&#8221;; his frequent travel, his use of flights as a writing environment, and the thousand-page novel his travel memoir has become; turning your own experiences into fiction, and which rules that changes (especially the sexual ones); his transferring to 23 different schools in childhood due to the workplace conduct of his &#8220;tactless genius&#8221; father&#8221;; his current search for a &#8220;quieter sense of what life is&#8221; and the conflict between wanting to change book culture forever and wanting to go to sleep; and how he taps into the universal desire to feel literary.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e25-feel-literary-with-adrian-todd-zuniga\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e25-feel-literary-with-adrian-todd-zuniga\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at Hugo&#8217;s Tacos in Los Angeles&#8217; Atwater Village with Adrian Todd Zuniga, founding editor of Opium\u00a0magazine\u00a0and impresario behind the international reading series Literary Death Match. 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