All posts by Zoe Zolbrod

April 29th, 2012

The Last City I Loved: Chicago

It depends on the definition of love, of course. You can spend a week in a city and ache at the sight of its balconies, be imprinted forever with the particular stench of jasmine and diesel. But if the intimacy doesn’t last at least as long as a year, was it really love? …more

February 5th, 2012

The Sunday Rumpus Interview with Lisa Carver

I first heard of Lisa Carver in the late 1980s, when we were both about 19 or 20. Performing under the name Lisa Suckdog in shows that involved screeching, screaming, pissing, and violence, she was often spoken of in the same breath with notorious scum-rocker G.G. Allin, …more

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Zoe Zolbrod's first novel, "Currency", received a 2010 Nobbie Award and was a Friends of American Writers prize finalist. Related short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The Chicago Reader, Knee-Jerk Offline, Fish Stories Collectives, and Maxine, a zine she co-founded in the 1990s. She blogs at the literary website The Nervous Breakdown and lives in Evanston, IL, with her husband and two children, where she works as a senior editor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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