The Boss
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Both Insider and Outsider: Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang
Barbie Chang is an intelligent, lively portrayal of the pressures on contemporary women (especially mothers), and a breathlessly entertaining read.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Favorite Songs by Bruce Springsteen
In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert promoting his new book, Born to Run, the Boss listed his favorite songs by the Boss. Also, he explained why he puts the E Street Band through four-hour long marathon shows, and the chafing that comes with…
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Kathleen Hanna Covers The Boss
Kathleen Hanna contributed a cover to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” for the upcoming film Maggie’s Plan, Consequence of Sound reports. Apparently Hanna also makes a cameo in the film, leading some therapeutic tribal chants. Check out the cover after the jump.
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The Fight Against North Carolina’s HB2
Following in The Boss’s footsteps, many musicians are speaking out against North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which bans trans men and women from using bathrooms of a gender other than that listed on their birth certificates. Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam, Boston,…
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Bruce Springsteen & Jon Stewart Forever
It’s become a pretty much universally acknowledged fact that there was no greater way for The Daily Show to go out than with Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band. Jon Stewart and the Boss have been mutual fans for…
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The Rumpus Interview with Victoria Chang
Poet Victoria Chang talks about the process behind writing her newest collection, The Boss, what it’s like to balance a nine-to-five office job with your craft, and intimidatingly good-looking crowds at small-press poetry readings.
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“I Never Intended Anyone to Read These ‘Poems’”
Previously, we blogged about a reading by Victoria Chang from her new poetry collection The Boss. Here’s a Q&A with Chang about that book, her approach to poetry, and her day job in the business world. An excerpt: I wrote these…
