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Larry McCaffery, Harry Polkinhorn and Sinda Gregory interview Richard Kostelanetz in Calexico, California. Kostelanetz begins the interview by stating “I do fiction that is more radical than what anyone else is writing today and radical in more ways.” The discussion moves towards what Kostelanetz considers fiction. Kostelanetz discusses how he is interested in language and that all of his work is “literary” precisely because it always involves language as opposed to other poly-artists who don’t focus on language. Much of the discussion focuses, not on Kostelanetz’s writing but on the variety of audio projects he has completed and is currently working on. Kostelanetz discusses his belief in technology and how it can do things with audio and with language that has not been possible in the past. An edited version of this interview appears on pages 200 to 218 of Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors, ed. Larry McCaffery, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.