Historian and publisher of the renascent Baffler magazine, John H. Summers has not exactly taken a direct route to heading a publication whose significance he compares to Dwight Macdonald’s mid-century journal, Politics.
Interviews
Author Q&A: Dan Chaon (Stay Awake)
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Author Q&A: Julianna Baggott (Pure)
“What Type of Equipment Do YOU Use?”: An Interview with Singer Colleen Green
Author Q&A: Nick Antosca (The Obese)
Interview: Alex Shakar, Author of Luminarium
Luminarium is a book brimming with ideas…To get Alex talking about it, I tried using an unorthodox interview structure.
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Interview: Ryan Boudinot, Author of Blueprints of the Afterlife
Five years ago, the short story collection The Littlest Hitler hit bookshelves, announcing Ryan Boudinot as one of our funniest and most exciting new writers.
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Random Truths About… Sarah Jaffe
The Way Sound Leaves a Room was just released this month. An EP of covers and demos, it showcases Jaffe on numerous instruments she hadn’t tackled before, sounding beautiful as ever.
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Pete Hamill
Self-described “aging Celtic scribe” Pete Hamill is, in the argot of our time, an old-school journalist and writer. Born in Brooklyn during the 20th century’s Great Depression, he was a high school dropout whose first interests were in the visual arts.
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Black Tin Rocket: A New EP of Transmissionary Six Songs as Covered by Eef Barzelay
5 Questions: Summer Block Talks About Editing "The Foghorn," An Online Comedy Magazine
Daniel Okrent
An Interview with Seattle Hip-Hop Artist Cody Foster (Sadistik)
“For awhile I was like, ‘I’ll just make the most complicated thing that nobody else can do and then I’ll be the best.’ And now I’m kind of learning that sometimes the most difficult thing to make isn’t the best at all.”
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K.M. Soehnlein
“I think what preoccupies me is transition, that zone between one place of relative stasis to another, in particular how we act, or react, when we don’t know what will happen next. Or, put another way: during moments when external circumstances throw us into crisis or flux, what do we do?”
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Random Truths About… Damien Jurado
Damien Jurado has been one of the most influential and interesting songwriters in the Pacific Northwest for a decade.
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