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3* ^LACKAMA^f^f___________ October 20, 2004 AftS Tinti: A revolutionary new auth Wielding a talent for the darkly spectacl Cassie Mathleson I The Clackamas Print The picture Hannah Tinti paints for her readers is undeni ably a vibrant and multi-faceted one. Tinti’s writing gives her fans a chance to expe rience the raw and pal pable aspects of life, death, and all the time spent waiting between the two. But best of all, she’s only 28 years old. On Friday of this last week we had a chance to speak with this revolutionary new author. In the Literary Arts Center right here on campus, Tinti spoke with our own aspir ing writers, and read from her new compilation of stories, “Animal Crackers.” Her new book is a grouping of fictional tales all having some thing to do with animals of one kind or another. As in “Home Sweet Home,” her second story included in the compilation, a lovable family canine is the first one to stumble upon the bloodied remains of the couple next door. Or in the title story very big influences to my writ “Animal Crackers,” where our ing. main character holds a job in a zoo and relays to us all the car TP: What would be your nage-ridden stories and experi response to those who say your ences of those who have worked writing is overly gruesome or there longer than he. morbid? We caught up with Tinti HT: My intention is while she was not to shock. here at “My intention is I am interest Clackamas ed in violence and asked her not to shock, a few ques and what I am interested causes people tions about in violence and to be violent; her provoca because that tive litera what causes is my subject, ture. people to be it brings The Print: along the violent...” other quali Who are your ties naturally. biggest liter Hannah Tinti My instructor, ary influ Author of A.M ences at this "Animal Crackers" Holmes, said point in your something writing? that I’ll have to take her, Hannah Tinti: I would like to say ‘men write about violence all Charlotte Bronte ... and Emily the time and when women do it, Bronte, so, I guess that would it’s an issue.’ I believe [vio just be the Brontes (laughs). lence] would be much less Also I would have to say Blanch noticed if I were a man. Boyd and A.M. Holmes; both of them were teachers of mine and TP: Do you intentionally give your readers the chadI pret your literary JI themselves? HT: I wouldn’t cal political writer at all ing is very direct, o think it is. People find a hidden mean! (laughs). TP: Do you have on you would want to your audience with ing? HT: My only desire writing causes an necessarily the typi just to connect witht makes people be vio want diem to take away from it. If you have an in darker side of the hi or even if you arej extraordinary litera skip over this brave At such a young age remarkable talent al the indescribable, si to be reckoned with, is for sure, you have last of Hannah Tinti John Stewart’s America’ a satirical look at Democi Katie Wilson The Clackamas Print So what do you know about America? Did you know that Millard Fillmore, our 13th president, lived for 18 years with a pair of magical talking cats who insist ed (for unknown reasons) on calling him Mr. Norris? Did you know that the Homo- sapiens of the future will be large and hairless with gigantic craniums, meaning, in other words, that we will all resemble Vin Diesel? According to Jon Stewart’s (of “The Daily Show”) new book “America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy,” you should probably know all these things if you’re going to effectively support democracy. Step one to supporting democracy, memorize these three dates: 1492 (when Christopher Columbus discov ered our country, unless you hold with the foolish belief that says the Vikings actually discov ered it a billion years before, in which case you’re obviously a Communist and we can ignore your opinion entirely), 1620 (when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, until there were too many pilgrims and they had to leave), and...another date which I’ve already forgotten. Anyway, to learn the other steps, you’ll have to read the book...which leads us to the burning question, should you read this book? If you find the increasingly random use of the “f-word” and all its variations amusing, you will like this book. If you find the crude humor of Jon Stewart wonderful, you will like this book. If you want to learn about democracy without “really” learning about it, you will like this book—and, strangely enough, you will probably learn a lot about our government if you read this book. Stewart’s “America” is a highly satirized, somewhat fac tual but mostly made up “text book” on the history of democra cy and government and why, even if we are screwed up, we’d rather live in America than in any other country in the world. This book is also sexist, slightly racist, crude, a waste of time and occasionally very funny. w H ? / ' |||jM 1 ¿1 la » K < i« Ä n > - Ji INTE John Stewart presents “America (The Book):? Guide to Democracy” his newly released bool esting if not useless America-related inform! Comics Attention campus ban ™ e C lackamas Priti wants to display your tn here!
