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Max Gray

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Read more of Max Gray at Big City Sasquatch or follow him on Twitter @City_Sasquatch. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Encounters, Mount Hope, Conte, tNY.press, and English Kills Review. He co-hosts the etymology podcast Words For Dinner and is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program.
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Song of the Day: “When the Tequila Runs Out”

  • Max Gray
  • October 13, 2016
Dawes is one of a handful of groups, including peers like Wilco and Broken Social Scene, who have undergone personnel changes without losing the essential heart and soul that make them who they…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • October 10, 2016
First, Sasha LaPointe meditates on the “language of trauma” in the Saturday Essay. An abusive experience from her childhood manifests itself in strange images of floating boats, images that she struggles…
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Song of the Day: “Black and Blue”

  • Max Gray
  • October 6, 2016
Given the anarchic, traumatic, and deeply worrying events of recent months, some might begin to lose hope. However, music—and especially jazz, the most particularly American music—never seems to lose its power to soothe…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • October 3, 2016
First, in the Saturday Essay, Philip Roughton translates Icelandic writer Oddný Eir’s mirage-filled meditation on coming-of-age. Eir describes haunting images that float beneath her consciousness and in her dreams. Then, Brandon…
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Song of the Day: “The Heat Is On (Part 1 & 2)”

  • Max Gray
  • September 29, 2016
Everyone knows funk music reached its heyday in the 1970s, but even legends like James Brown and George Clinton were hard pressed to compete with funk powerhouse The Isley Brothers…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • September 26, 2016
First, in the Saturday Interview, Helga Schimkat talks to author Eden Robinson about silencing the inner voice of criticism. Robinson, whose award-winning novel Monkey Beach is set in British Columbia, emphasizes the sensory…
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Song of the Day: “Burn the Witch”

  • Max Gray
  • September 22, 2016
Radiohead is no stranger to anxiety. A tense tone—like a taut cord reverberating—runs through the high-energy opener “Burn the Witch,” from their latest record, A Moon Shaped Pool. Thom Yorke’s delicate wail floats…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • September 19, 2016
First, Chip Livingston recounts his transformational experiences with Reiki and alternative healing practices in the Saturday Essay. A shocking recording of a tarot reading empowers Livingston to feel hope again…
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Song of the Day: “I’m Glad You’re Mine”

  • Max Gray
  • September 15, 2016
The Reverend Al Green’s fifth album, I’m Still In Love With You, appears at the top of many critics’ rankings, including that of the Village Voice‘s longtime writer, Robert Christgau. And for…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • September 12, 2016
First, in the Saturday Essay, Kate Lebo looks back at her Seattle neighborhood, Ballard, in 2007, before gentrification. Recalling details about her neighbors’ homes lead Lebo to reevaluate a particular time in…
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Song of the Day: “One Mo’ Gin”

  • Max Gray
  • September 8, 2016
In the pocket. It’s the only way to describe the slithery pulse of the bass and rhythm section in D’Angelo’s slow ballad “One Mo’ Gin,” off his explosive soul album…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • September 5, 2016
First, Theo Pauline Nestor critiques the way “women are supposed to be” in the Saturday Essay—how they are supposed to look and act, particularly when in the company of men. A…
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