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A Secret History of Popular Labyrinthitis: Seven Musical Moebius Strips
In 1998, years before cofounding The Believer, Ed Park wrote a memoir he would later believe lost. More than two decades passed before he found the only surviving copy tucked away in an unmarked box. Today, that memoir appears as Thr...
An Interview with Claudia Rankine
With the publication of Claudia Rankine’s new book, Triage, this past week, we’re revisiting Ratik Asokan’s 2014 interview with Rankine for the Believer Logger, published shortly after Citizen: An American Lyric. Their conversation t...
Mythmaking and Leonora Carrington, an Exquisite Corpse
The following is excerpted from “Mythmaking and Leonora Carrington, an Exquisite Corpse,” an essay by Matilda Bathurst published on the Believer Logger in 2017.
DISCUSSED: Marina Warner, Chloe Aridjis, Artistic Autonomy, Max Ernst,...
Fall Risk
The following is excerpted from “Fall Risk,” an essay by Madeleine Watts published on the Believer Logger in 2020.
DISCUSSED: Ana Mendieta, CitiMD, D.W. Winnicott, Nordic Literature, A Particularly Feminine Pathology, The Emergency...
An Interview with Joan Didion
The following is excerpted from Sheila Heti’s conversation with Joan Didion in Issue 87 of The Believer. A former Believer interviews editor, Heti recently spoke with Merve Emre for The New York Review of Books about the form; read t...
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Writer and photographer based in Brooklyn. Anna May Wong expert and author of Not Your China Doll. Proud mixed race Asian. Plushie collector. Sunday gardener.
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at large // wrote FAT SWIM, HOUSEMATES, & THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL
Bestselling author of HOT WAX (2025), IF WE WERE VILLAINS, GRAVEYARD SHIFT, and other things. I write about the craft of fiction, the business of publishing, surviving creative self-employment, and Big Five book deals from first draft to pub day.
Amanda Fortini is a writer and editor who divides her time between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Livingston, Montana. She is currently writing a book about Las Vegas.
Writer. Author of The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) & The Border of Paradise (2016). Best American Short Stories. Founder of The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy. Clue in the New York Times crossword.
Writer of books and screenplays since the twentieth century.
las vegas. contributing writer at defector, freelance for many other publications. debut novel OBSERVER forthcoming from ecco 09.15.26
researching on art and tech.
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