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Reality Scooped: Talking with Tony Tulathimutte

  • Erica Berry
  • June 19, 2017
Recent Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte discusses his first novel, Private Citizens, the state of satire in 2017, “booby-trapping” identity politics, and productivity in the Internet age.
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The Pain and Poetry of Fame

  • P.E. Garcia
  • May 1, 2015
…because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you…
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Characters Aren’t the Enemy

  • P.E. Garcia
  • February 2, 2015
I’ll admit that I was so into sentence construction when I started working with Amy that I had zero interest in character development. Hempel subtly persuaded me, partially through introducing…
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Shame and Shamelessness

  • P.E. Garcia
  • January 12, 2015
I’m more interested in someone like…Allen Ginsberg…people who are shameless because they have a sense of shame. What they’re really trying to do is to change the face of shame…
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The Girl Canon

  • P.E. Garcia
  • November 7, 2014
Those Boy Canon books were the ones that I read throughout the years I was in high school. And, let me make clear, I have no end of affection for…
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Word of the Day: Periculous

  • Sara Menuck
  • October 22, 2014
(adj.); dangerous or full of peril; from the latin periculum (“an attempt, risk”) I’m normal. I live in a nice apartment. I think one thing [guys like Burroughs] didn’t have…
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The Invisible in Morocco

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 10, 2014
As a homosexual in Morocco I think that you understand very early that there’s no protection and that no one will defend you. If someone takes your arm and wants…
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“Short Attention Span is the New Avant-Garde”

  • P.E. Garcia
  • August 19, 2014
In the final installment of its “What Would Twitter Do?” series, The Believer talks to MoMA Poet Laureate Kenneth Goldsmith about how he views Twitter and its relationship to writing.
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Believer Now Accepting Classifieds

  • Casey Dayan
  • July 18, 2014
Say you want to rant somewhere it’ll be seen. Or send a love letter, publicly. Or write short, realistic fiction in the form of ads about how your grandmother has…
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The Modern War Novel

  • P.E. Garcia
  • July 15, 2014
As modern warfare has changed, so has the war novel. The Believer’s blog has an interview with author Aaron Gwyn, where he discusses his latest novel and the changing reality…
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Last of the Radical Filmmakers

  • P.E. Garcia
  • June 17, 2014
The Believer blog has a great interview with avant-garde filmmaker Nina Menkes. Menkes provides some insight into her creative process, as well as her take on being a feminist filmmaker:…
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Twitter, Unplugged

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 11, 2014
Writing from Turkey, a country that temporarily unplugged Twitter to quell government protests, novelist and essayist Kaya Genç describes the experience of disconnecting from the service. Instead of the liberation he…
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