November 22, 2009
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Media Diet: Holly Hughes

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July/August 1996
By Rebecca Scheib, Utne Reader 
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I really don't watch TV, because I can't be trusted around a television set. If I start watching, I can't stop. I get some of my news from my girlfriends on the phone, and the rest I make up. But I also read alternative publications, like The Village Voice and The Nation. As much as I grouse about them, which I do, I feel dependent on them as an antidote to the corporatization of the media. Big corporations are gobbling up everything in sight, and most newspapers read like employee newsletters for Exxon.

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Where do you find inspiration?
Deadlines. It's the only way I get anything done. Once I waited and waited for inspiration and all of a sudden I realized that ten years had gone by, and I hadn't been inspired! I'm rarely inspired, really; I'm merely hysterical.

What are the sources of your best ideas?
Other people's work, the artists that I've mentioned, and, of course, Weekly World News--the source of all artistic inspiration.

What is your most creative space?
Wherever I happen to be, with a deadline. I like to write in bed, because it seems less scary. I don't get as caught up in the anxiety of feeling like I'm not a real writer if I'm in bed.

After the NEA defunded you, you said you were trying "to recover women's sexual power in a fucked-up context." Do you feel like you've made progress? 
Yes, I think that in the last few years there has been an explosion on the literary scene of representations of sexuality by women--and by queers--that feels like it's expanding the language of desire. That really feeds me. I feel like I can go farther, both in bed and out of bed, as a result.
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