The Believer – June 2008

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The Believer – June 2008

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Interviews

AI
An Interview with Melissa Holbrook Pierson
writers
An Interview with Gus Van Sant
filmmakers
An Interview with Tom McCarthy
writers
An Interview with Kristen Schaal
actors
Fatima: An Oral History

Departments

objects

John Brandon

Poetry

Cast of Thousands

Sandra Beasley

Curious Hungarian Synthesia

Larissa Dooley

“Haofon Rece Swealg”

Jane Hirshfield

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Essays

John Cheever on the Rocks

Blake Bailey

That Crafty Feeling

Zadie Smith

Gidget on the Couch

Peter Lunenfeld

Kiddie Orientalism

Brian T. Edwards

Columns

Sedaratives: Paul Feig

Paul Feig

Interviews

AI
An Interview with Melissa Holbrook Pierson
writers
An Interview with Gus Van Sant
filmmakers
An Interview with Tom McCarthy
writers
An Interview with Kristen Schaal
actors
Fatima: An Oral History

Reviews

Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances

Andrew Ervin

Thomas Devaney’s A Series of Small Boxes

Alan Gilbert

Jenny Browne’s The Second Reason

Stephanie Burt

B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates

Linden Park

Claude Cahun’s Disavowals

Kate Zambreno

G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr

Karan Mahajan

Nina Revoyr’s The Age of Dreaming

Darcie Dennigan

Schema

The Only Documented Case of Audio-Motor Synesthesia

Larissa Dooley

Poetry

Cast of Thousands

Sandra Beasley

Curious Hungarian Synthesia

Larissa Dooley

“Haofon Rece Swealg”

Jane Hirshfield

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