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You’ve Got the Wrong Song: ABC's "Nashville" and Country Music FeminismSyria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then FadingCarousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the HammerLetter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist StateDick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore see all essays »
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The "Who, What, and Why" Behind Guantánamo: An Interview with Jess Bravin[VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin Dickey[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives" see all interviews »
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The Questionnaire interviews Janet Fitch

“The Questionnaire: Janet Fitch”

July 10th, 2012
The Questionnaire interviews Sesshu Foster

“The Questionnaire: Sesshu Foster”

March 30th, 2012
Gregg Barrios interviews James Franco

“James Franco on His Earliest Reading and Latest Writing”

December 9th, 2012
Michael Bibler interviews James Franco

“James Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"”

May 15th, 2013
Eric Been interviews Thomas Frank

“The American Aftershock: An Interview with Thomas Frank”

March 16th, 2012
LARB Minifilms interviews Judith Freeman

“The Long Embrace”

April 18th, 2012
Casey Burchby interviews William Friedkin

“Fifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin”

May 1st, 2013

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