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Dani Burlison

Dani Burlison is a staff writer for a Bay Area alt-weekly, a recent columnist at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and a freelancer of epic proportions who also slings zines and teaches writing workshops. She is currently working on her first book. To find her or her essays, book reviews and more, visit http://www.daniburlison.com or @DaniBurlison on Twitter.

Features & Reviews, Music, Rumpus Original

Dani Burlison

Aug 8, 2013

Rock Out With Your Book Out #3: Nick Flynn

Full of youthful energy, hilarious anecdotes, refreshingly honest insights about life and how the fuck we are supposed to move through it all, he’s got this presence that could convince anyone that our experiences do not, in fact, have the…
Features & Reviews, Music, Rumpus Original

Dani Burlison

May 1, 2013

Rock Out with Your Book Out #2: Writer Ariel Gore’s Steely Dan Detox

Hip Mama, which started as Ariel Gore’s student project at Mills College in Oakland and debuted as a zine in 1993, elevated Gore to rockstar status
Features & Reviews, Music, Rumpus Original

Dani Burlison

Mar 19, 2013

ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BOOK OUT #1: JOLIE HOLLAND

I once read an interview with Jolie Holland in which she mentioned how her songs come through her from some other world.
Film, Rumpus Original

Dani Burlison

Mar 12, 2012

The Rumpus Review of Being Flynn

Nick Flynn’s words sucker-punch me and drag me through Boston’s back-alley construction zones, skimming eruptions of broken glass. Across crumbling and unforgiving asphalt I arrive battered, gutted, laughing, astonished. What the fuck just happened? I close my eyes, afraid to…

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Dani Burlison

Rock Out With Your Book Out #3: Nick Flynn

Rock Out with Your Book Out #2: Writer Ariel Gore’s Steely Dan Detox

ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BOOK OUT #1: JOLIE HOLLAND

The Rumpus Review of Being Flynn