Listen to This One: Rumble Strip Bianca Giaever Nov 1 2019 When NPR was founded in 1970, it was a much weirder place. In an All Things Considered piece from thirty-four years ago, producer Larry Massett listed his medical allergies, ...
Geography Lessons: Interviews from the 2019 Believer Festival in Las Vegas Mari Brown and Ross Simonini Oct 1 2019 At this year’s Believer Festival, we cornered artists and activists at slot machines and on smoke breaks, asking them to riff on the meaning of the borders they’ve encountered ...
A Natural Mother Bianca Giaever Jun 1 2019 On a Sunday morning in May 2018, I accompanied Vivia Wampler to a mall in Chico, California, where she often went to eavesdrop on other families. She held a Coke in one hand ...
Back to the Desert and Neon Lights The Editors May 13 2019 Our aims with The Believer Festival are relatively humble. We're not trying to change the world (although if that happens? Neat!). We're just happy to have an excuse to spend ...
An Interview with Kate Soper Andrew Leland Aug 1 2018 For Kate Soper, the most profound way to read a work of literature is by performing it as music. As a child, she liked to pull a book of poems off the shelf—Robert Frost or ...
An Experiment in Anxiety Andrew Leland Oct 15 2015 A Conversation with Joshua Cohen on PCKWCK Most authors give interviews when they’ve been done with their books for more than a year. After the long processes of copyediting, ...