the believer
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Want a free ticket to a private Beck Show?
Our friends at The Believer are giving away ten free tickets to “Beck’s Song Reader” at Sonos Studios next Thursday evening in Los Angeles. Check it out: The event isn’t open to the public, so if you want to come chill…
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Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
Joan Didion’s 78th birthday is as good an excuse as any to revisit her conversation with Sheila Heti for the Believer. The two talk about the performative aspects of writing, the confidence a writer has to claim, and Didion’s aborted oceanography…
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McSweeney’s Holiday Party!
Come out this Thursday night to The Makeout Room from 7-10 for McSweeney’s annual Holiday Party! Tickets can be purchased here and guests receive a free copy of the Believer or Lucky Peach Magazine, treats from Dandelion Chocolate, Tiger Beer, Holiday Eats,…
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Believer Week
Subscriptions to The Believer are $5 off all week long in celebration of their upcoming 2012 music issue. The issue features a free cassette tape (and digital download) curated by Calvin Johnson, and interviews with Lucinda Williams, Mobe, Brian Chippendale,…
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“Perimeter-less Perimeters”
Believer co-founder and co-editor Heidi Julavitz writes about how online journals (such as The Rumpus!) caused the Believer to rethink some of its original tenets, including a strong resistance to virtualization. “Ultimately we risked losing readers, and we risked losing…
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Relational Reading
Author Sheila Heti, a long-time astrology naysayer, came across popular U.K. astrologer Jonathan Cainer last year and has been following his daily writings ever since. In conversation at The Believer, Heti asks Cainer about his sense of narrative, time, and…
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The Wolf Knife
The Believer will present Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife at the IFC Center on Monday, April 9th at 8pm. The screening, which celebrates the release of The Believer’s new film issue, will be followed by a conversation between Nakadate and…
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Geoff Dyer & David Thomson Convo (Tonight!)
Litquake and The Believer are presenting a conversation between novelist, essayist, and New York Times Book Review columnist Geoff Dyer and film critic David Thomson. Tonight, 7p.m. at North Beach’s Tosca Café. Admission is free. Get there early, Bay Area!
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Didion’s Places To Go
“Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can’t reach otherwise.” Joan Didion’s conversation with Sheila Heti is now available in its entirety at The Believer.
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Appearing in Public
The Believer is teasing us with ongoing highlights of a conversation between Sheila Heti and Joan Didion before posting the interview in its entirety. In this snippet Didion discusses writing as performance.
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No Comment
At the Believer, Meghan Daum dissects the “commenting culture” of the Internet and the rampant “haterade” in our public discourse. “A young person (any person) who published a piece as incendiary as “Safe-Sex Lies” today would be chewed up and…
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“Howl” Anniversary
Allen Ginsberg debuted “Howl” at the Six Gallery Reading on October 7, 1955. In 2006, for the 50th anniversary of the poem’s publication, City Lights came out with Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression and The Believer reflected…