The Believer Book Award

EDITORS’ SHORTLIST

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The Believer Poetry Award

EDITORS’ SHORTLIST

November 24, 1963

by Susan Straight

What my brother left behind

Joe Frank

[RADIO ARTIST]

interviewed by Jonathan Goldstein

“Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.”

FULL TEXT
Letter to the Editors by Marc Herman
Ten years on, a reexamination of a piece from issue one

Noise-Canceling Headphones by Paul La Farge
A mole's-eye view of the novel, its pleasures and inconveniences

The Anarchists Must Go by Justin Wadland
In the wake of a president's assassination, a community newspaper with a circulation of seven hundred and a section focused largely on steamer schedules and tomato yields found itself defending the right to free speech while an angry mob formed a raiding party

Some Permutations of We by Margo Jefferson
Criticism that comes close to home

Partial Magic in Pat the Bunny by Ed Park
Grappling with the horror of infinite mammal regression

Rev. James Lawson interviewed by Diane Lefer

Martha Plimpton interviewed by Kathryn Borel

Jeanette Winterson interviewed by Andrea Tetrick

The Process: Kati Heck interviewed by Makeal Flammini

REVIEWS
Nicholas Rombes on a ten-year-old film, Adriane Quinlan on a museum ten years in the making, Stephen Burt on a statesman of ten years ago, and Benjamin Weissman on writing gigs of ten years ago: Pornography and Professional Skiing

NEW POEMS
Blue Prints by Bob Hicok
Spring Formal by Rosalie Moffett
Theory of Relativity by Eric Weinstein

What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler

Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus

Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis

Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby

“Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura

Schema: Toll-Free Ogres by Brian McMullen

Four Paintings by Raymond Pettibon, with text by Jonathan Lethem

...and more.

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