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Alex Behr
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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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The Rumpus Interview with Phil Milstein
About twenty years ago, Phil X. Milstein damaged the psyches of my miscreant writer and musician friends in the Bay Area.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray
I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in San Francisco. Of course I wanted to befriend her. In…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning
In the late 1980s, Terri Manning and her sister, Barbara, lived in one of San Francisco’s painted ladies near Golden Gate Park. This lady, a huge, rambling Victorian with peeling paint, opened its door to touring bands, local musicians, artists, and…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #31: Alex Behr in Conversation with “Eric Larson”
I met Eric Larson (a pseudonym) in a Bay Area writing workshop around ten years ago. He’s had the most intriguing job of anyone I’ve met in that often-myopic fiction-writing world—he’s a Death Row attorney, primarily for clients at San…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC) bout in Las Vegas against Ricardo Lamas on August…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #26: Alex Behr in Conversation with Lucinda X
The last time I saw Lucinda was around July 4, 2003. Marching around with sparklers in her back yard, drinking beer and laughing, she showed no ill-effects of being a California parole officer. Lucinda, forty-one, is now a California state…
