PBS高端访谈:如果你也是外星人那所有人都是（在线收听）

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, we turn to another installment of our weekly Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask people about their passions. Jonny Sun is an author who amassed a loyal Twitter following through his honesty, humor and candor. His latest book is Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too.

JONNY SUN, Author, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: Look, life is bad. Everyone's sad. We're all gonna die. But I already bought this inflatable bouncy castle. So, are you going to take your shoes off, or what? I think I have always grown up as like a shy, introverted, socially anxious person. I have always seen my Twitter account as like a personal account. And I have always been drawn to it as a writer for the fact that I'm able to be honest and open and vulnerable, I guess, in a way that I can't be in person. I have always seen Twitter as kind of this writer's sketchbook. I have approached it as a writer this whole time. And it's always been this place where I can, like, take ideas and test them out. Anonymity online has gotten this kind of bad rap because of a lot of the harassment and abuse, which, of course, is such a serious issue. The flip side of that is that being anonymous online allows certain people to have a voice and have a presence, especially when their real-life identities can't be compromised. I wrote a book. It's called Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too. It's an illustrated story of an alien who comes to Earth and meets a bunch of different characters and kind of gets to learn about their lives. Another, I think, characteristic of the voice that I have worked on and developed through Twitter and in the book is this idea of kind of messing with syntax and grammar and kind of doing intentional mistakes and doing typos and stuff. And I think that relates a lot to kind of the postmodern movements of poetry and the Fluxus movement in the '60s and how these artists were taking the look of type on a page and using that to influence voice and to change the ways we read ideas. Hopefully, that intentional clumsiness creates pure, honest, genuine voice for readers and for people to pick up on. I think about, like, death all the time. I think a lot of writers think about death all the time. I'm always thinking about how much I can do and how much time I have left. I have so many things I want to do. Accepting that one day in the future I won't be here anymore makes me really think really hard about how much time I have on this Earth and what I'm going to do with it. My name is Jonny Sun, and this is my Brief But Spectacular take on connecting with others.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And you can find additional Brief But Spectacular episodes on our Web site. That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.

朱蒂·伍德拉夫：接下来，请看我们的每周系列节目《简短而壮观》，在那里我们探寻人们的激情。乔尼·孙是一位作家，他诚实，幽默而又坦率，是一位忠实的推特写手。他的最新著作名为《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》。

乔尼·孙，作者，《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》：看，生活很糟糕。每个人都很伤心。我们都要死了。但我已经买了这个充气城堡。所以，你要脱鞋上来，还是怎样？我想我从小到大一直都很害羞，内向，充满社交焦虑。我一直把我的推特帐户看作个人帐户。作为一名作家，我一直被它所吸引，因为我能够以一种我无法亲自面对的方式去诚实，去开放，去脆弱。我一直认为推特是这位作家的素描本。作为一个作家，我一直都这样使用它。它总是在这个地方，我可以，像，获取想法，并测试它们。由于很多骚扰和滥用，在线匿名发帖名声不好，这当然是一个严重的问题。另一方面，在线匿名让某些人拥有自己的声音并获得存在感，特别是当他们的真实身份不能受到损害时。我写了一本书。名叫《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》。这是一个插图故事，一个外星人来到地球，遇到一群不同的角色，并开始了解他们的生活。

另一个，我认为，我通过推特和书中所研究和发展的声音特点是，这种想法有点语法混乱，有点故意犯错，写错别字或写错的东西。而且我认为这与60年代的后现代诗歌运动和激浪派运动有很大关系，这些艺术家如何采用页面类型外观，并利用它来影响声音并改变我们阅读思想的方式。希望这种故意的笨拙可以为读者和人们提供纯粹，诚实，真实的声音。我一直想着，比如死亡。我想很多作家一直都在思考死亡。我一直在想我能做多少以及剩下多少时间。我有很多事情要做。接受将来的某一天我将不再在这里，我在这个地球上有多少时间以及我将要用它做什么，真的很难。我的名字叫乔尼·孙，这是我的《简短而壮观》，关于与他人联系的看法。

朱蒂·伍德拉夫：你可以在我们的网站上找到更多《简短而壮观》的剧集。这是PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief。