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Stephen Markley

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Stephen Markley is the acclaimed author of The Great Dysmorphia: An Epistemological View of Ingesting Hallucinogenic Mushrooms at a 2012 Republican Presidential Debate and Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold, and Published This Very Book. He is also a columnist for the Chicago RedEye and blogs at "Off the Markley." Follow him on Twitter: @stephenmarkley and at www.stephenmarkley.com.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Brockmeier

  • Stephen Markley
  • May 30, 2014
Writer Kevin Brockmeier talks about his memoir A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, the painful nature of seventh grade, treading the line between fact and fiction, and why he would save Karen Russell in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joseph Huff-Hannon

  • Stephen Markley
  • February 12, 2014
Writer and activist Joseph Huff-Hannon discusses Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories, an oral history collaboration with journalist Masha Gessen and a look at the human rights crisis currently affecting Russia's LGBT population.
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The Rumpus Interview with Bill McKibben

  • Stephen Markley
  • December 10, 2012
Bill McKibben does not exactly look like the kind of stentorian figure you’d expect to be leading one of the most important grassroots movements in the history of civilization
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Ronson

  • Stephen Markley
  • November 26, 2012
A "non-stop, fascinatingly meandering, frequently interrupting, talking-over-each-other, freewheeling kind of conversation" with bestselling author Jon Ronson.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alexandra Kimball

  • Stephen Markley
  • October 9, 2012
Alexandra Kimball discusses a disheartening current reality: the economic ability to take one or more unpaid internships early in a journalism or writing career may be far more important than talent, insight, or work ethic.
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The Comedian Mayor: The Rumpus Interview with Jón Gnarr

  • Stephen Markley
  • August 23, 2012
Iceland's most famous comedian ran for mayor of Reykjavic, and won...
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