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June 20, 2011

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    Francesca Lia Block talks to Clarissa Romano about Weetzie Bat


    Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti talk toTom Lutz about Chairs Are Where the People Go.


    David Leonard talks to Oscar Wang about After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness


    Jonathan Lethem talks to Andy Zax about the Talking Heads


    Catherine Malabou talks to Arne de Boever about The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage


    David Misch talks to Ellis Weiner about Humor: The Book


    Maggie Nelson talks to Arne de Boever about The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning


    Laura Pulido an Wendy Cheng talk to Oliver Wang about The People's Guide to Los Angeles


    Simon Reynolds talks to Andy Zax  about everything      Part 1        Part 2


    Rob Schmitz talks to Angilee Shah about workers in China       Part 1        Part 2


    R.J. Smith talks to Oliver Wang about James Brown


    Art Spiegelman talks to Van Dyke Parks about MetaMaus


    Dana Spiotta talks to Michael Szalay about her novels


    Monique Truong talks to Mariam Lam about Bitter in the Mouth


    Walt Whitman:  two poems by  set to music


    Irvin D. Yalom talks to Jonathan Kirsch about The Spinoza Problem

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