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Michael Zelenko

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Michael Zelenko is a freelance writer and editor. He was most recently a writer for the newspaper The Reykjavik Grapevine in Iceland. Born in Murmansk, Russia, he currently resides in San Francisco where he is working on a children's book.
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Rumpus Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos, Director of Dogtooth

  • Michael Zelenko
  • June 25, 2010
“I don’t go to the cinema to hear these clichés about life—something you say to someone so that they can move on.”
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #4: Dumitru Tsepeneag on the Danube

  • Michael Zelenko
  • February 11, 2010
Dumitru Tsepeneag is a Romanian novelist, essayist and one of the founders of the Romanian Oniric literary movement. Established in the mid-60s, the Oniric group was inspired by surrealism and…
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic on the Danube

  • Michael Zelenko
  • January 25, 2010
Sasa Stanisic was born in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and lived there until 1992, at which point his family fled the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. He currently resides in Germany.…
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #2: Dubravka Ugresic on the Danube

  • Michael Zelenko
  • January 8, 2010
Born in the former Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia), Dubravka Ugresic began her career writing children’s television programs and books. In nearly four decades of writing and editing, she has published books…
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #1: György Dragomán on the Danube

  • Michael Zelenko
  • December 23, 2009
“For me writing is indeed very close to collection, but it is not a process of collection, much rather a way for cataloging your collection.”
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