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Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books including We Run the Tides, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, and The Lovers. A founding editor of The Believer magazine, she lives in Northern California.
An Interview with Kevin Wilson
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Interviews
An Interview with Noah Baumbach
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Interviews
An Interview with Debra Winger
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Interviews
An Interview with Jennifer Egan
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Interviews
An Interview with Shirley Hazzard
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Essays
Does Javier Marías Have a Leg Fetish?
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Interviews
An Interview with Liz Phair
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Schema
A History of Magic Realism
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An Interview with Noah Baumbach
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May 1 2013
(with occasional interjections by) GRETA GERWIG [ACTOR, WRITER] The world premiere of Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, took place on September 1, 2012 ...An Interview with Debra Winger
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Mar 1 2011
In her 2008 book, undiscovered, Debra Winger describes how she got her first major role—that of Sissy, a sassy Texan cowgirl—in Urban Cowboy: “I arrived at the Paramount ...An Interview with Jennifer Egan
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Aug 1 2006
There’s no such thing as a typical Jennifer Egan novel. Her first, The Invisible Circus, is set in the ’70s and follows a young woman’s quest to piece together her older ...An Interview with Shirley Hazzard
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Jul 1 2004
Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931 and she left Australia in 1947. She has since lived in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Britain, and France. Now an American citizen, she ...Does Javier Marías Have a Leg Fetish?
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Aug 1 2003
BUT WHO FROM SPAIN? Every so often a foreign-born and foreign-living literary writer is heralded and crowned by Americans as our literary ambassador, our tour guide to a ...An Interview with Liz Phair
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Jun 1 2003
Liz Phair’s debut album, Exile in Guyville, was released in 1993, and was followed by Whip-Smart in 1994 and whitechocolatespaceegg in 1998. Her new album, Liz Phair, will be ...A History of Magic Realism
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May 1 2003
