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 AUGUST,
2008: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL IAN BLACK
By
BRIAN HURLEY
"In
my community, I'm expected to look fat and be greasy and
smell terrible. I don't want to have to start going to
the gym so I can look like Jamie Foxx. I don't need that
kind of pressure."
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 JUNE,
2008: AN INTERVIEW WITH SLOANE CROSLEY
By
SAMANTHA STOREY
It's
funny, most life lessons you know when you're about
12, but it doesn't matter; you have to live through
them to really understand them, which is frustrating.
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 JUNE,
2008: AN
INTERVIEW WITH JOSH KILMER-PURCELL
By JESSICA LUX
It
started with [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan was 99% image and
America bought it. Reagan was the first American Idol
winner.
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ARCHIVES
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AN
INTERVIEW WITH JANICE ERLBAUM
By MARIE MUNDACA
"Memoirists
are the reality show contestants of the literary world.
We're shameless, navel-gazing attention whores, and
we're degrading the culture with our whining and self-pity.
Readers don't mind because they're just looking for
a good story that will help shed some light on their
own lives, but critics are really annoyed by us, probably
because there are so damn many of us, and we're all
competing to see who had it worst."
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FEBRUARY,
2008: RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL
By MARIE MUNDACA
When
we [women] figure out that we can have sex outside the
conventional ways (with someone we're not necessarily
dating or in an unusual way that blows our minds, or whatever),
we want to share this fantastic (and not always so fantastic)
news.
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DECEMBER,
2007: GEORGE SAUNDERS
By JEN PENKETHMAN
Honestly, I don't think of myself as an issue satirist,
ever. I feel like I'm just writing stories about human
beings and the way they act.
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NOVEMBER,
2007: JOE MENO
By BRI LAFOND
I
think a mistake that a lot of people in independent
publishing and independent culture make is that they
want to draw a line and be really dogmatic. They want
to say that there's something intrinsically valuable
about a piece of art that's independently produced
versus something that comes out on a commercial label
or from a commercial studio.
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AUGUST,
2007: NOAH CICERO
By TAO LIN
Agents
have e-mailed and said to write things. I started. I felt
like I was at work. I write to escape work. When I write
normal, well-adjusted sentences, I feel like I'm at school;
I really hate school. I hate being told what to do. I
really fucking hate when people tell me what to do.
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JULY,
2007: HARRY AND THE POTTERS
By KYLE OLSON
Hermione has no real interest in music, but while studying
she might listen to some classical. Draco has his house
elves buy whatever gets good reviews in Spin magazine.
His friends, Crabbe and Goyle, are into nu metal and will
eventually grow really bad goatees.
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