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The Thing

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The Future of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep up with Our Suffering?

  • Davey Davis
  • January 26, 2017
The individuality of body horror is its signature attribute. Nothing is more intimate than one’s own body, and by extension, one’s own physical suffering.
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Mr. Clarke, the Real Hero of Stranger Things

  • Stephanie Garrison
  • November 10, 2016
He’s the teacher who encourages questions beyond the class assessment, who always gets his students to open the “Curiosity Door.”
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #50: The Big 5-0!

  • Rick Moody
  • June 27, 2014
While it’s possible to find a lot to worry about in the world of contemporary music, there’s always something new to listen to as well, post-historical, outlying, pre- or anti- or minimally digital music. And so maybe there will be five more years of Swinging Modern Sounds.
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Notable New York, This Week 5/10 – 5/16

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • May 10, 2010
This week in New  York, Granta’s Sex Party, The Moth Mainstage presents Saints and Sinners, SLEIGH BELLS perform, Emily Gould celebrates her new memoir with a party, Sebastian Junger discusses…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem

  • Ronnie Scott
  • January 19, 2010
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
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Jonathan Lethem Meets The Thing

  • Anisse Gross
  • July 20, 2009
I was waiting on a couple the other night at a restaurant where I work, and I saw a strange box on their table that had Jonathan Lethem‘s name printed…
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