— MAY 2012 —
VOL. 10, NO. 4

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF

THE BELIEVER
BOOK AWARD

THE BELIEVER
POETRY AWARD

AND

The Reader Survey

Believer readers vote for their favorites

Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity

B. Alexandra Szerlip

The tiny, meticulous re-creations of golf courses, racetracks, and the fields of war that were the precursors of a sweeping view of the future

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Jonathan Lethem

[Author, Bookseller]

micro-interviewed by Peter Andrey Smith
“Any time I’m in a new place, the question is ‘What are the bookstores like here?’”

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— ALSO IN THIS ISSUE —

FULL TEXT
White Migraine: A new poem by Michael Dickman


American Isolato by Ginger Strand
How the creation of the United States Highway System led to the unremarked rise of a very American breed of serial killer


Americans Talk About Their Dogs
Ryan & Satchel interviewed by Krista Whetstone


Drying in the Wilderness by Tana Wojczuk
The false promises of Manifest Destiny and the individualism of the American West created a mirage in the middle of the desert


On Dodgem Jockeys by Tom McCarthy


What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler

Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus

Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby

Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis


Kateřina Šedá interviewed by Darren O’Donnell

Ricky Jay interviewed by Greg Buium

William Connolly interviewed by Jill Stauffer


FULL TEXT
Ronnie Scott on the BBC's South Pacific

Rick Moody on Ryan Boudinot

John Reed on Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer


“Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura

...and more.


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