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Lisa Dusenbery

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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
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Fuck It

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 16, 2012
“My point is this—if you want to be happy in showbiz (or any creative field), listen to that voice inside you. Even if it says ‘Fuck it’ sometimes. Work with…
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Twitter Chatter with @TheNewAnnHirsch

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
BOMB Magazine’s Legacy Russell interviews performance artist Ann Hirsch about being scandalous, what it means to be a “camwhore,” the construction of girlhood, and feeling ashamed. The entire conversation was…
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Grotto Night: Sunnyside Up

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
The SF Writers’ Grotto, The Booksmith and friends will present “An Evening of No-Holds-Barred Optimism” on Friday, May 18th at The Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight Street, San Francisco).…
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Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
Carlos Fuentes has died at 83. Here’s an extensive 1981 conversation between the Paris Review and the author. “I think all writers live off of obsessions. Some of these come…
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RIP Mike McGrady, Literary Hoax Mastermind

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
Award-winning Newsday reporter Mike McGrady passed away on Sunday at 78. He was best known as the architect of a literary hoax, the 1969 collaborative novel, Naked Came the Stranger,…
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Joining Forces

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
“Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we…
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Michael Robbins Interview

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 15, 2012
Vol. 1 Brooklyn converses with Michael Robbins about his recently released poetry collection, Alien vs. Predator. Other topics of discussion include his hatred of Mississippi, Dadaism, suberversion in music, Occupy,…
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Mike Doughty Interview

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 14, 2012
The Outlet talks with Mike Doughty about this new memoir The Book of Drugs, medication, luck, Soul Coughing, and more. “I don’t think active pain is necessarily useful. I don’t…
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Pop-Up Magazine

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 14, 2012
Artist Jason Polan’s drawings of Pop-Up Magazine #6 are available for a limited time as a book. Polan illustrated each story in “real time,” creating the only record of the…
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Never Look Away

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 14, 2012
“Who will protect us in this town, I think. There are skinheads and KKK people and bullies. There are dogs that run snarling to the edge of their yards when…
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Mother’s Day

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 11, 2012
“Back when my son was three I took him to Downtown Brooklyn. He pointed to a sign, and said ‘The – King’s – Store.’ I had no idea he could…
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Thanks, Boing Boing!

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 11, 2012
Boing Boing linked to Steve Almond’s must-read piece, “THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World.” We love you back!
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