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Alina Simone

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Alina Simone is a Brooklyn-based singer. She is currently at work on a book of essays about Russia, family and the tragic-comic struggle to make it in indie rock for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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Hollywood, Writer: The Rumpus Interview with Brian McGreevy

  • Alina Simone
  • April 2, 2012
Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had…
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Chats with Random Men #15: Fakhir

  • Alina Simone
  • July 28, 2011
Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.
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Chats with Random Men #14: Osama Edition

  • Alina Simone
  • June 27, 2011
When she’s not writing music or books, Alina Simone talks with random men on Facebook.  This time, about Osama bin Laden.
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Chats with Random Men #13: Kleber Returns

  • Alina Simone
  • January 27, 2011
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — here she welcomes back an old “friend” in this midnight chat with Kleber:
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Chats with Random Men #12: Rajendra

  • Alina Simone
  • December 8, 2010
Chatting with random men via Facebook, singer Alina Simone solicits advice from Nepal on whether or not to feed her unborn child a donut.  
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Chats With Random Men #11: Amit

  • Alina Simone
  • November 30, 2010
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit.
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Chats with Random Men #10: The Return of Kleber

  • Alina Simone
  • November 29, 2010
Alina’s old friend Kleber returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise.
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Chats With Random Men #9: Anil

  • Alina Simone
  • November 17, 2010
Russian singer Alina Simone continues her random Facebook chats with men, this week discussing constipation and pregnancy with a Turkish fan:
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Chats With Random Men #8: Kleber, Part III

  • Alina Simone
  • September 27, 2010
For our final installment of Chats with Random Men, Alina has her third random chat with Klebe, who tells her about his random chat with Robin Williams… 7:05pm Kleber guess…
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Chats With Random Men #7: Kleber, Part II

  • Alina Simone
  • September 23, 2010
Part two of Alina’s random chat with Kleber: 7:25pm Kleber you know what!! here in Times Square people are so freaking weird 7:25pm Alina listening
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Chats With Random Men #6: Kleber, Part I

  • Alina Simone
  • September 21, 2010
This chat begins a three-part discussion with Alina’s new friend, Kleber, Klebe, the Klebes: 10:38 pm Kleber hello Alina Simone 10:38 pm Alina what’s up, Kleb?
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Chats With Random Men #5: Rajendra

  • Alina Simone
  • September 20, 2010
This week Alina randomly chats with a Nepali poet: 11:07 pm Rajendra Hi madam 11:07 pm Alina Hello sir
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