The Believer – September 2004

Issue seventeen

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The Believer – September 2004

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Interviews

An Interview with Ian Frazier

writers

An Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub

actors

An Interview with George Meyer

writers

Departments

places

Nick Poppy

objects

Kevin Smokler

Poetry

Ground Frog’s Day

Dean Young

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Essays

The Dreamlife of William Poundstone

William Poundstone

Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People

Brock Clarke

Small Battles in a War of Attrition

Stephen Elliott

Idiots!

Paul La Farge

Lawrence, Aguirre, and the American Imperial Moment

Jim Shepard

The Believer Reading Group Guide for Bright Lights, Big City

Chris Bachelder

Comics

Four-Color Comics: “Gangway for Murder, Pt. IV”

Michael Kupperman

Columns

Stuff I’ve Been Reading: September 2004

Nick Hornby

Seksopolis: The Croats in the Summer

Milana Vuković Runjić

Interviews

An Interview with Ian Frazier

writers

An Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub

actors

An Interview with George Meyer

writers

Reviews

A Review of: Cocktails by D.A. Powell

Sarah Manguso

A Review of: At the Damascus Gate by Elana Greenfield

Christopher Kennedy

A Review of: A Defense of Ardor by Adam Zagajewski

Christopher Byrd

A Review of: Jokerman 8 by Richard Emidio Melo

Alix Ohlin

A Review of: The Secret Goldfish by David Means

Rebecca Donner

A Review of: The Pink Institution by Selah Sterstrom

Margaret Wappler

Underway: Kunzru, Haigh, Martínez

Various

Schema

A Classification of Metaphorical Proverbs

Neil Freeman

Poetry

Ground Frog’s Day

Dean Young

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