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Nancy Smith

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Nancy Smith is a writer and graphic designer. Her work has been published in Paper, The Believer, Seattle Weekly, Resonance, and Communication Arts. She has an M.A. in Media Studies and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently working on a Ph.D in Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She blogs about books, design, and technology here: somequietfuture.com
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Poet or Storyteller?

  • Nancy Smith
  • September 26, 2011
Tom Waits on Tom Waits, a comprehensive collection of interviews and encounters spanning nearly forty years, is essential reading for any Tom Waits fan.
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Magazine Review #7: Annalemma, Issue 8: Creation

  • Nancy Smith
  • August 23, 2011
Annalemma’s eighth issue is dedicated to “the creators, the people who make things, the people who use ingenuity and creativity to work around barriers. To the people who adapt to…
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No One Can Take a Bath for You: Why I Write

  • Nancy Smith
  • June 17, 2011
The other day, a friend of mine said he was giving up writing. This friend happens to be a very good writer. Why? I asked. Too many people already write…
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Magazine Review #6: Paris Review, Issue 196

  • Nancy Smith
  • May 31, 2011
The most important—and surprising—thing about this issue of The Paris Review: Roberto Bolaño’s lost novel. This is very exciting for fans of the Chilean writer (I happen to be a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender

  • Nancy Smith
  • April 22, 2011
I just think it has become clearer to me that writing is making a vessel to send to a reader.
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Magazine Review #5: Canteen, Issue Six

  • Nancy Smith
  • April 4, 2011
Issue six of Canteen is gorgeous—clean and modern, lots of white space, square format, luscious paper, a beautiful illustration by Rod Hunting on the cover, more like an art book…
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Magazine Review #4:
McSweeney’s 36

  • Nancy Smith
  • February 16, 2011
McSweeney’s 36 can hardly be called a “magazine,” though it’s difficult to know just what to call it. A friendly human-head box filled with an assortment of printed matter would…
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Magazine Review #3: Tin House #46, Winter Reading

  • Nancy Smith
  • December 29, 2010
I’ve been craving winter. Real winter. Snow and ice and shoveling and bundling up to the point of being unable to bend over. We don’t get that here in San…
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Magazine Review #2: Zoetrope: All-Story (Fall 2010)

  • Nancy Smith
  • November 15, 2010
One of the most remarkable things about Zoetrope: All-Story has always been their use of guest designers. Every issue carries the unique stamp of the contributing artist but this issue…
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Magazine Review #1: Ploughshares

  • Nancy Smith
  • October 1, 2010
  In his introduction to the issue, guest editor Jim Shepard says, “I’ve been drawn to protagonists who are geniuses at knitting together self-indictment and self-exoneration in ways that are…
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Nancy Smith: The Last Book I Loved, Willful Creatures

  • Nancy Smith
  • March 30, 2010
When I was a kid I would wander down the block, four houses over, to visit our neighborhood “grandma,” Mrs. Koski. At her house I was treated to Cheetos and…
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