Posts by: Alex Behr

Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch

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Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.

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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya

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Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray

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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 the early ’90s we played together in combustible “super-mini-groups”—Job’s Daughters and Heavenly Ten Stems—and I […]

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning

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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 whomever else needed a place to crash or a home-cooked meal. The Manning sisters’ generosity […]

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #31: Alex Behr in Conversation with “Eric Larson”

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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 Quentin State Prison, paid separately on contract for each case. Here are some questions I’ve […]

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #26: Alex Behr in Conversation with Lucinda X

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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 investigator of lifers, and an aspiring roller derby vixen. Her boss approved this interview, but, […]

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