The Believer: Vol. 8 No. 7
Author: Heidi Julavits, Ed Park, Vendela Vida (Eds.)
Publisher: McSweeney's
Language: English
Pages: 80
Size: 21.6 x 25.5 cm
Weight:
210 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 6139957012
Availability:
In stock
Price:
€12.00
Product Description
The Believer: Vol. 8 No. 7 is the September 2010 issue.
Contents:
Sweatpants In Paradise
by Molly Young
The Exciting World of Immersive Retail
Cameras Are Clocks for Seeing
by Geoff Dyer
Roland Barthes’s 1980 Camera Lucida reads as a discursive novel (written by a mother-mourning French theorist) presciently preoccupied with photography as a technology of the past.?
For the Love of Pretty Things
by Robert R. Johnson
The Radium Girls and “Dying for Science”
Bohemian Rhapsody
by Jason Boog
During one hot summer in 1934, a love affair transformed a scrappy band of self-published poets into the biggest literary celebrities in the country.
“Weird Al” Yankovic
interviewed by Jonathan Zwickel
Simone Muench
micro-interviewed by Daniel Handler
Robin Nagle
interviewed by Alex Carp
Wallace Shawn
interviewed by Duncan Macmillan
Man of the Century
by Damion Searls
Just in time for its author’s hundredth birthday, the remarkably sympathetic fiction of Hans Keilson—doctor in the Dutch resistance, psychologist of trauma, and erstwhile novelist—is finally available in English.
The Culture of Calamity
by Anne Gisleson
A view from over the shoulders of the press corps in a coast guard plane flying above the Gulf of Mexico
Fata Morgana: A new poem
by Yusef Komunyakaa
From “Love, an Index”: A new poem
by Rebecca Lindenberg
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s A Life on Paper
reviewed by Victor Brand
Melissa Range’s Horse and Rider
reviewed by Stephen Burt
Kira Henehan’s Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
reviewed by Megan Doll
Eugene Marten’s Firework
reviewed by Mark Edmund Doten
Anne Carson’s Nox
reviewed by Andrew Ervin
Danielle Dutton’s SPRAWL
reviewed by Kate Zambreno
Real Life Rock Top Ten
by Greil Marcus
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
by Nick Hornby
Musin’s and Thinkin’s
by Jack Pendarvis
A Monthly Stroll Down Folksy Byways
Sedaratives
by Brendon Small
Schema: Great Sandwiches in Literature
by Yeonjae Yuk
"Comics"
edited by Alvin Buenaventura