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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Twitter Chatter with @TheNewAnnHirsch
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…
Grotto Night: Sunnyside Up
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).…
Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012
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…
RIP Mike McGrady, Literary Hoax Mastermind
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,…
Joining Forces
“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…
Michael Robbins Interview
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,…
Mike Doughty Interview
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…
Pop-Up Magazine
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…
Never Look Away
“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…
Mother’s Day
“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…
Thanks, Boing Boing!
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!