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Posts by: Dmitry Samarov

What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters

By Dmitry Samarov

September 23rd, 2022

or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags

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Tags: Dmitry Samarov, What to Read When

Rumpus Exclusive: Excerpts from All Hack

By Dmitry Samarov

August 3rd, 2020

I had another cab dream last night. I have them a lot.

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Tags: All Hack, book excerpt, Boston, cars, Chicago, Dmitry Samarov, driving, exclusive, exclusive excerpt, jitney, taxi cabs, taxi drivers, taxis, Uber

Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”

By Dmitry Samarov

March 12th, 2019

Music has haunted me my whole life.

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Tags: Art, book excerpt, Dmitry Samarov, exclusive excerpt, mothers, mothers and sons, Music, Music to My Eyes, Russia, Soviet Union, Tortoise Books, violin

Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1970. He never set out to write anything but can’t seem to stop now. His first book, Hack—Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press) came out in 2011. It was followed by another taxi-related book published on a small press run by a crook. Then, after a fallow period, Samarov restarted his book-making habit in 2019 with Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books), Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather), All Hack (Pictures&Blather), and Old Style (Pictures&Blather). Samarov contributes art, film, theater, and book reviews regularly to the Chicago Reader, co-hosts That Horrorcast with Mallory Smart, and interviews interesting people at hu u no. An absurdly thorough archive of Samarov’s artwork can be found at dmitrysamarov.com. Sign up for his newsletter there. He hasn’t missed a week in years.

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