— IN THIS ISSUE —
A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes
by Michelle Legro
In 1944, the self-imposed exile Sadakichi Hartmann died dreaming of the perfume concert that failed to take him home.
Rashida Jones
[Actor]
interviewed by Kathryn Borel
“I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older that everybody has their place in the world and not everybody is going to be fucking killing it all the time.”
Lucha Libro by Christopher Heaney
On Saturday nights in Lima, a bracket of thirty-two unpublished writers don luchador masks and battle for the future of Peruvian literature.
S.O.S. by Rachel Kushner
The black comedy of Curzio Malaparte, in which Americans eat manatees and vendors hawk pubic wigs in postwar Italy.
Here in America by Lawrence Weschler (in correspondence between Eric Fischl, Susan Twomey, and Joe Pinkelman)
How a community arts center in west central Illinois started a discussion on censorship, abuse, and the power of transgressive art.
REVIEWS
Greg Cwik on Elliott Gould’s Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye
Scott Esposito on Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch
Aaron Cutler on Dave Kehr’s When Movies Mattered
Noah Baumbach interviewed by Vendela Vida
Rudy Wurlitzer interviewed by Alan Licht
Zhuang Zhou interviewed by Alan Levinovitz
The Process by Christopher Bollen
A conversation with the artist Seth Price about his book How to Disappear in America.
Search Party
A new poem by Jean Monahan
What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler
Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby
Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus
Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis
Schema: Team Dostoevsky by Bob Solotaroff
“Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura
...and more.
In celebration of our 10th anniversary—and in appreciation to our readers—the following articles are now available in full text on the web:
Eddie Vedder interviewed by Carrie Brownstein (June 2004)
“Crimes Against the Reader” by Rick Moody (April 2005)
“Transmissions from Camp Trans” by Michelle Tea
(November 2003)
“Welcome to the Almost Cult-Like Fan-World of American Women’s Pro Basketball” by Stephen Burt (May 2005)
Zadie Smith talks with Ian McEwan
(August 2005)
March 25, 2013
The Believer and Greenlight Bookstore present ““An Evening with the Believer” in celebration of our tenth anniversary and the release of Always Apprentices: The Believer Magazine Presents Twenty-two Conversations Between Writers. Hosted by Believer editor Andrew Leland, and featuring a conversation between Gary Lutz and Believer interviews editor Ross Simonini, and readings by Margo Jefferson, Joanna Fuhrman, and Alan Gilbert. Beer (provided by Brooklyn Brewery) and mingling to follow.
FREE, 7:30 PM, Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
March 7, 2013
We’re ten years old! Celebrate in fine style with Believer founding editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Ed Park, interviews editors Ross Simonini and Sheila Heti, columnist Nick Hornby, a conversation with Gabrielle Bell and Amanda Filipacchi, and a full dance set by Dawn of Midi.
Advance tickets can be purchased here and include a free copy of our anniversary issue. Signature cocktails sponsored by Drambuie!
$10 advance, $12 at door. Doors at 7, show starts at 7:30. 158 Bleecker Street, NYC. Buy tickets »
Cheers!
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