I picked up the new book “My First Movie” by Steven Lowenstein. It’s the book that was reviewed in EW this week. I haven’t had the time to read through all of it yet, but I skimmed the interview with Kevin and here are some things I noticed:

1) The interview with Kevin is 30 pages long, and includes a ton of text.

2) The interview starts with how Kevin ever became interested making a movie, and head all the way through the process of writing, making, distributing and the aftermath of the film.

3) In some ways the interview seems to span as much (if not more) than the passages in “Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes”. While some of the stories are the same, most of them have been expanded upon a little bit. For example, the story of how Kevin got the student discount on film in NYC by signing up for a one-day class at the local community college and getting a school ID. It’s been awhile since I’ve read Pierson’s book, but I don’t recall ever hearing that the name of the class was “Roasting Suckling Pig” (or something like that).

Overall my impression was that anyone who’s ever asked Kevin about “how it all began,” or anyone (like myself) who is interested in the minutia of his story, would love the interview.