Ross Simonini is interviews editor for the Believer, a founder of NewVillager, and a visual artist who blogs at roosshamanana.blogspot.com

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  January 2013: Interview with Mike Patton
  Mike Patton interviewed by Ross Simonini
• November/December 2012: Interview with Joe Bradley
  The artist on trying to paint like Grandma Moses,Thomas Kinkade, or a seventeen-year-old kid drawing dicks everywhere.
• October 2012: Interview with Mika Rottenberg
  “I don’t like to overdictate a cinematic ‘look.’ I’d rather put the ingredients together … and then step back and let it create itself.”
• September 2012: Interview with Matt Mullican
  The artist talks about going under hypnosis to find room to breathe in the powerful etiquette of the art world.
• July/August 2012: Interview with Brian Chippendale
  “If, when walking in a dark corridor, you lose your balance and find yourself falling into a large cardboard box, do not resist.”
• June 2012: Interview with The Process
  A conversation with artist Eddie Martinez about his painting Ghost Fish
• February 2012: Interview with The Process
  A conversation with artist Brian DeGraw about his sculpture The Thinker.
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  November/December 2011: Micro-Interview with Terence Koh
• October 2011: Interview with The Process
  Ross Simonini on Christian Holstad’s “Money”
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  September 2011: Interview with Jason Schwartzman
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  July/August 2011: The Only Unpunished Rapture on Earth
  The 2011 Believer Music Issue CD
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  July/August 2011: Interview with Trey Anastasio
  “I try to remember how insignificant my experience is, and how people’s experiences with music are their own thing.”
• January 2011: Interview with Bianca Casady
• November/December 2010: Interview with Keegan McHargue
• March/April 2010: Interview with Harmony Korine
  “Child acrobats, people who can set themselves on fire—that’s always what kept me going. Goldfish swallowers, pygmies—to me, that’s the greatest thing in life.”
• July/August 2009: The Clash of the Jamaican Deejays
  As with American gangsta rap, the threats that fill the lyrics of dancehall reggae often deliver on the real-life violence they promise.
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  July/August 2009: Interview with Thom Yorke
  “I always hated CDs.”
• July/August 2008: Notes on the 2008 Believer CD
• March/April 2008: Interview with Vladimir
  On using the View-Master—that old binocular and paper disk toy—to make movie experiences that are a little like synchronized swimming.
• June/July 2007: Interview with David Gates
  Distinguishing bluegrass from old-time, creativity from innovation, and criticism from fiction writing.
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  April 2007: Review of Derek White’s Poste Restante
• December 2006/January 2007: Review of Jason’s The Left Bank Gang
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  September 2006: Review of The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour
• August 2006: Review of Three New Picto-Novelettes
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  May 2006: Review of Maile Meloy’s A Family Daughter
• February 2006: Interview with Gary Lutz
  “Every sentence should bestow a fresh verbal bounty on the reader.”