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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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Chats with Random Men #4: James

  • Alina Simone
  • September 1, 2010
Note: These are actual chats conducted on Facebook with men who instant message the musician Alina Simone. If you too keep getting scammed for money by Russian women, you won’t…
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Chats With Random Men #3: Abraham

  • Alina Simone
  • August 25, 2010
This week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…
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Chats With Random Men #2: Matteo

  • Alina Simone
  • August 18, 2010
This week’s random chat with a man — meet Matteo…
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Chats With Random Men #1: Emre

  • Alina Simone
  • August 11, 2010
This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men. Beginning with…
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The Last Book I Loved: Alina Simone, Unlovable

  • Alina Simone
  • March 26, 2009
Unlovable (Fantagraphics Books) is a graphic novel by Esther Pearl Watson that is based on a diary the author found in a gas station bathroom in the 1980’s belonging to…
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