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Ross Simonini

Ross Simonini is a writer, artist, musician, and staff interviewer at The Believer. His first novel, The Book of Formation, was published by Melville House Books. He hosts Subject, Object, Verb and teaches at Columbia University.

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An Interview with Pat Metheny

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An Interview with Will Oldham

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Essays

The All

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Geophagy at Red Earth Hole

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An Interview with Maggie Nelson

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The Return

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Warm Home Energy

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A Mundane Immortality

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Bridget Phetasy Wants You To Kill Your Hypochondria Before It Kills You

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An Interview with David Duchovny

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The Shaker

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An Interview with Matt Healy

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Vijay Iyer Wants You to Feel Your Spine

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Rodney Ascher Burns Simulation Theory into Our Synapses

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An Interview with Sean Penn

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Jenny Odell Considers New Temporal Realities

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David Lynch Ushers in a Golden Age

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An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

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An Interview with Livia Kohn

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An Interview with Katherine Hill

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An Interview with Arthur Jafa

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An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner

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An Interview with Temple Grandin

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Eric Wareheim on Winemaking

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An Interview with Jason Moran

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An Interview with Pope.L

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An Interview with Ram Dass and Rameshwar Das

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An Interview with Ezra Koenig

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An Interview with Miranda July

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An Inherently Paintable Moment

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An Interview with Stephin Merritt

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An Interview with Carroll Dunham

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An Interview with Meredith Monk

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An Interview with Sarah Braman

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The Process: Jemima Kirke

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An Interview with Chris Martin

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The Process: Lizzi Bougatsos

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Lizzi Bougatsos is a pervasive figure in New York culture. As a musician, she is a member of Gang Gang Dance and I.U.D., two groundbreaking musical groups in which she ...
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An Interview with Mike Patton

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An Interview with Joe Bradley

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An Interview with Mika Rottenberg

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An Interview with Matt Mullican

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An Interview with Brian Chippendale

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Brian Chippendale wears a green, lucha libre–looking mask when he drums. He sings and screams, too, but you can’t see it, since the microphone is strapped to the inside the ...
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The Process: Eddie Martinez

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The paintings of Eddie Martinez contain a grunting, primal urge for mark-making. With a slew of tools and techniques, he piles up canvases with chunky shapes and smears that ...
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An Interview with Jim Woodring

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“ONE OF THE BEST MEMORIES OF MY LIFE IS CONTEMPLATING THAT FIRST FINISHED DRAWING AND REALIZING I HAD CRACKED THE CODE, THAT I COULD MAKE DRAWINGS LIKE THIS WHENEVER I ...
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The Process: Brian Degraw

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Brian DeGraw mashes up culture. His artwork dances through a spate of forms and references, reflecting a city-dweller's uneasy relationship with pervasive mass media. His ...
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A Microinterview with Terence Koh

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This issue features a microinterview with Terence Koh, conducted by Ross Simonini. Koh’s work involves death, decay, silence, an abundance of white, and, quite often, his own ...
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The Process: Christian Holstad

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Christian Holstad’s practice is broad and includes ornate collages, artfully erased newspaper photographs, enigmatic installation works, and cloth assemblages. With materials ...
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An Interview with Jason Schwartzman

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An Interview with Trey Anastasio

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An Interview with Bianca Casady

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An Interview with Keegan McHargue

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In their own playful way, the paintings of Keegan McHargue tug at the very nature of perception. If M.C. Escher created his optical illusions through hyper-dimensionality, ...
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An Interview with Harmony Korine

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An Interview with Thom Yorke

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Essays

The Clash of the Jamaican Deejays

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An Interview with Vladimir

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The artist who goes by the name Vladimir is one of the only known filmmakers working with View-Masters, which, if you remember, are those cheap-looking toy binoculars usually ...
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An Interview with David Gates

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Reviews

A Review of: Poste Restante by Derek White

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The Left Bank Gang

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The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour

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Three New Picto-Novelettes

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A Review of: A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy

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An Interview With Gary Lutz

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