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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/un-treasured-time-conversation-phil-elverum/"></div><p><em>In my mind, Phil Elverum is a man who needs no introduction. </em></p>
<p><em>I met Phil probably in 1997. I would have been four or five and he, a teenager, was recording music in K Records’ Dub Narcotic Studio, which, as it happened, was across the hall from my artist mother’s studio. As I was scurrying around the building’s dusty halls and trying to make shoes out of construction paper, Phil was recording atmospheric songs on a 16-track about landscape and longing. </em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/un-treasured-time-conversation-phil-elverum/#more-3617" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Un-treasured Time: A Conversation with Phil Elverum

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/america-anyway-interview-eula-biss/"></div><p><em>In 1979, Joan Didion proclaimed, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Eula Biss brings this certainty back from the brink of truism by asking: what are these stories? Where do they come from? And what do they mean for the way we live? Dissecting the myths that determine the way news is covered and the world is conceived, Biss employs the personal, the philosophical, the linguistic, and the historical to reframe moral and political dilemmas.</em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/america-anyway-interview-eula-biss/#more-3475" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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What is America Anyway?: An Interview With Eula Biss

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/shall-done-changing/"></div><p>Music has a way of accenting time and — at its best — of moving it forward. Time would pass anyway, of course, but the beat propels it, allows it to be experienced more fully. At least, this is what happens when Felix Walworth is behind a drum set. Standing with long hair loose, Walworth flails, hitting at things with a reckless restraint. To watch is to see the world in microcosm — body and song — come into being one moment at a time. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/shall-done-changing/#more-2587" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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When Shall We Be Done Changing?

<strong>Cypress Marrs has written for <i>Bomb</i>, <i>Full Stop</i>, and <i>Lapham<em>’</em>s Quarterly</i>. Tweets @cypresscymbals.</strong>

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Fugue State Ensues: An Interview with Tamara Shopsin

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Cypress Marrs has written for <i>Bomb</i>, <i>Full Stop</i>, and <i>Lapham<em>’</em>s Quarterly</i>. Tweets @cypresscymbals.