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“The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly”: A Jim Woodring Interview

Interviews are typically peppered with ums and uhs, the fillers and hesitations that characterize extemporaneous speech. There are also the false starts, thoughts begun but never brought to fruition. A...

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“I Felt Like I Didn’t Have a Baby But At Least I’d Have a Book”: A Diane...

At first glance, DiDi Glitz’s life is nothing short of fabulous: a high percentage of “fascinating devastating love affairs,” “lavish interior design schemes,” and “utterly gorgeous outfits.” But DiDi...

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Are You My Mother?

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina’s epigrammatic first line might have been written about Alison Bechdel’s first book, Fun Home, which nimbly...

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Gloriana

Every story carries with it stories that aren’t told—versions of itself that might have unfolded had the author chosen slightly different paths for his or her characters. By making a decision to tell a...

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Pompeii

When discussing the setting of his 1995 book Storeyville, Frank Santoro once paraphrased Sherwood Anderson’s advice about situating a narrative, “that the postage stamp of the land where you’re from is...

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“This Brighter Path”: An Interview with James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook

I met James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook at a diner in the East Village, across the street from Tompkins Square Park—the neighborhood they have inhabited since the early eighties, when they became...

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Black Is the Color

On the title-page spread of Julia Gfrörer’s new book Black Is the Color, long, curving strands of line emerge thickly from the bottom of the left page and ramble up and across the facing page. Some...

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School Spirits

Anya Davidson has described School Spirits as a book about female friendship. And it is: Oola and Garf are the Maggie and Hopey of death metal, best friends who weather the storms of high school, petty...

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The Complete Zap Comix

Zap Comix didn’t kick off the underground press scene of the sixties, but it serves as a model of what was at stake in the shift from the button-down, nuclear-family ’50s to the radicalism and drug...

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Carpet Sweeper Tales

In his autobiography, Stravinsky wrote about the importance of observing the movements of the players while listening to a composition, avowing that the “fullness” of the music could only be...

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“The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly”: A Jim Woodring Interview

Interviews are typically peppered with ums and uhs, the fillers and hesitations that characterize extemporaneous speech. There are also the false starts, thoughts begun but never brought to fruition. A...

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“I Felt Like I Didn’t Have a Baby But At Least I’d Have a Book”: A Diane...

At first glance, DiDi Glitz’s life is nothing short of fabulous: a high percentage of “fascinating devastating love affairs,” “lavish interior design schemes,” and “utterly gorgeous outfits.” But DiDi...

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Are You My Mother?

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina’s epigrammatic first line might have been written about Alison Bechdel’s first book, Fun Home, which nimbly...

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Gloriana

Every story carries with it stories that aren’t told—versions of itself that might have unfolded had the author chosen slightly different paths for his or her characters. By making a decision to tell a...

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Pompeii

When discussing the setting of his 1995 book Storeyville, Frank Santoro once paraphrased Sherwood Anderson’s advice about situating a narrative, “that the postage stamp of the land where you’re from is...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“This Brighter Path”: An Interview with James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook

I met James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook at a diner in the East Village, across the street from Tompkins Square Park—the neighborhood they have inhabited since the early eighties, when they became...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
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Black Is the Color

On the title-page spread of Julia Gfrörer’s new book Black Is the Color, long, curving strands of line emerge thickly from the bottom of the left page and ramble up and across the facing page. Some...

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School Spirits

Anya Davidson has described School Spirits as a book about female friendship. And it is: Oola and Garf are the Maggie and Hopey of death metal, best friends who weather the storms of high school, petty...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Complete Zap Comix

Zap Comix didn’t kick off the underground press scene of the sixties, but it serves as a model of what was at stake in the shift from the button-down, nuclear-family '50s to the radicalism and drug...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
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Carpet Sweeper Tales

In his autobiography, Stravinsky wrote about the importance of observing the movements of the players while listening to a composition, avowing that the “fullness” of the music could only be...

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