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Lincoln Michel

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Lincoln Michel‘s fiction has appeared in Granta, Oxford American, Tin House, NOON, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, Bookforum, Buzzfeed, VICE, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. He is the former editor-in-chief of Electric Literature and a founding editor of Gigantic. He is the co-editor of Gigantic Worlds, an anthology of science flash fiction, and Tiny Crimes, an anthology of flash noir. His debut story collection, Upright Beasts, was published by Coffee House Press in 2015. He teaches fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. He tweets at @thelincoln.
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren

  • Lincoln Michel
  • November 1, 2013
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
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The Rumpus Interview with Adrian Van Young

  • Lincoln Michel
  • April 1, 2013
Adrian Van Young, whose fiction wades in traditions formed by writers like Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and Edgar Allan Poe, explores horror, terror, and the supernatural in new and unexpected ways.
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The Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan

  • Lincoln Michel
  • September 4, 2012
As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics. With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be…
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Reality Boredom: Why David Shields is Completely Right and Totally Wrong

  • Lincoln Michel
  • March 8, 2010
1. Reality Hunger, the newest book from the always interesting David Shields, comes sheathed in glowing blurbs from the likes of Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, Amy Hempel and Jonathan Lethem.…
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The Velvet Underground’s Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion

  • Lincoln Michel
  • December 15, 2009
“They can’t make us wait in lines,” my friend said when we were told the doors weren’t open yet. “This is punk rock.”
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Outsider Art with a Professional Sheen

  • Lincoln Michel
  • May 29, 2009
America has always had people dying for a taste of the limelight and others willing to delude them for a healthy profit. PBS takes a funny and moving look at…
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The Last Book I Loved: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World

  • Lincoln Michel
  • May 12, 2009
I’m not sure why it took me a bit to get into Donald Antrim’s Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, because the book begins with the quartering of the…
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