— 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
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?’”
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
John Reed on Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer
“Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura
...and more.














