The Believer Logger

As a side-earner, the writer and artist Leonora Carrington painted fakes. At least, that’s what she once stated in an interview, daring her admirers to doubt her artistic authenticity.

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Interviews

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Motherest, Process, and Kristen: An Interview with Kristen Iskandrian

Aug 8, 2017 Interviews Hayden Bennett

Kristen Iskandrian’s first novel, Motherest, is told in first-person by 18-year-old Agnes, who lives in “the middle of a New Jersey nowhere” and has just begun college in “the middle of a New England nowhere” in 1993.

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"An Expression of Love": Rebecca Miller and Barbara Browning in Conversation

May 9, 2017 Interviews Hayden Bennett

I first saw Barbara Browning when she was naked, one hand extended to open a shower curtain, in our shared dorm bathroom, when we were both in our late teens. Barbara wore her hair short then, and her compact little body was so unapologetically whole, not a series of parts in the way I considered my own body to be.

May 9, 2017 Interviews Hayden Bennett

Reviews

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The Method of Pain: by Miranda Mellis

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In Visceral Poetics, poet Eleni Stecopolous' recent book on, among other things, struggling with chronic pain while trying to write a dissertation about Antonin Artaud and Paul Metcalf, Stecopolous writes about her frustration with being undiagnosable.

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