Alan Moore With Eva Prinz & Thurston Moore: A Conversation

Alan Moore was born in Northampton, England, and has lived there ever since. Widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics, his seminal works include From Hell, Lost Girls, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. He is also the author of the bestselling novel Jerusalem. Illuminations: Stories (Bloomsbury Publishing) is Moore’s first short story collection – in which he presents a series of wildly different and unforgettable characters – spans 40 years of work. In “A Hypothetical Lizard,” two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In “Not Even Legend,” a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In the title story, a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past close at hand. And in the novella “What We Can Know About Thunderman,” which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry’s major players over the last 75 years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.

Eva Prinz is an artist and poet based in London working primarily with experimental film and sound art. Her films have been shown at Tate Modern in London, Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin, and The Walker Center in Minneapolis. Prinz began her publishing career in New York with German publisher Taschen in 2000, and has served as a senior editor and publisher of books on the subjects of art, architecture, photography, erotica, and music for Rizzoli and Abrams, as well as Ecstatic Peace Library – an imprint she founded in 2009 with her husband, musician Thurston Moore. Prinz recently curated a Rock and Roll Round Table at The Algonquin Hotel in New York and has also curated exhibitions at The Whitechapel Gallery in London and Gavin Brown's Passerby and White Columns in New York, as well as film programs at Close-Up Cinema in London. She also operates The Daydream Library Series, an independent record label to release new music, which recently announced the debut album by the Miami band Seafoam Walls.

Thurston Moore is a musician, writer, publisher, record label owner, and the founder of Sonic Youth. Currently, he performs and records solo, with various ensembles, and with his band, The Thurston Moore Group. He has worked with Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Bobby Gillespie, David Toop, Cecil Taylor, Faust, Glenn Branca, and many others. Alongside his various activities in the music world, he is involved with publishing and poetry and teaches writing at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is at work on his forthcoming memoir Sonic Life. Moore and his wife, Eva Prinz, operate the publishing company Ecstatic Peace Library, as well as the independent record label The Daydream Library Series.