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Jesse Nathan

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Jesse Nathan is an editor at McSweeney’s and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Nation. He was born in Berkeley, grew up in Kansas, and lives now in San Francisco.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rumpus Managing Editor Isaac Fitzgerald

  • Jesse Nathan
  • March 24, 2011
This last February, I pulled out the recorder, told [Isaac] to sit still, and peppered him with questions.
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Chasing J.X. Williams: The Rumpus Interview With Noel Lawrence

  • Jesse Nathan
  • August 11, 2009
J.X. Williams directed 54 feature films, wrote 78 screenplays, and compiled an FBI file 6,000 pages long. Noel Lawrence has poured his life into the maintenance and curation of the…
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The Wind Has Stopped Blowing (Your Pockets Are Filled With Wind)

  • Jesse Nathan
  • August 5, 2009
It’s April and I’m back home for Passover and Easter and my brother’s birthday. I’m wandering my parents’ farm. The air is cold and I expected warm, the trees are…
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Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova a.k.a. Gala Dali

  • Jesse Nathan
  • June 24, 2009
Artists are fickle, except when they’re not, and then their lovers are. Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova was born in Tatarstan, Russia to a family of intellectuals — as a kid she…
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A Novel, A Junta, A Murdered Bishop

  • Jesse Nathan
  • May 13, 2009
A book—that’s an artifact, often long, filled with deep analysis, and pages, and made of paper—by Francisco Goldman undoes an electoral campaign, triggers assassinations, and drags its author into a…
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Feverish

  • Jesse Nathan
  • May 6, 2009
“Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel” is the name of Laurel Nakadate’s new show, opening this Thursday at Leslie Tonkonow in New York City. Nakadate’s work hurls us into discomfort…
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STORIES WE RECOMMEND: “The Mourning Door”

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 29, 2009
Nearly a decade after Ploughshares published it, Elizabeth Graver’s short story “The Mourning Door” remains shrouded in a slippery surrealism that’s at once impenetrable and, simultaneously, the source of the…
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Strunk and White take it on the chin

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 29, 2009
The Elements of Style, the classic writing handbook by E.B. White and William Strunk, Jr., just turned fifty. The New York Times celebrated by posting the opinions of five “experts”…
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“Are people who write entirely & absolutely selfish, darling?”

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 23, 2009
In the last Nation, Michelle Orange picks apart A Life in Letters, a book of Graham Greene’s correspondence edited by Richard Greene (no relation, really, she checked).
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Florida’s Torture Chamber for Delinquent Boys

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 23, 2009
For 109 years, Florida has sent bad boys to the Florida School for Boys–for things like rape and assault, yes, but also for petty infractions like truancy or smoking in…
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The End of Mass Media

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 15, 2009
“Once Al Gore gets the fiber optic highways in place,” writes Crichton, “and the information capacity of the country is where it ought to be, I will be able, for…
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True/Slant/Hmmmm

  • Jesse Nathan
  • April 15, 2009
It’s worth applauding the creative efforts behind True/Slant. It’s a website founded by a former AOL executive who’s hired 65 “knowledge experts.” “Knowledge experts,” in this context, means professional journalists…
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