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Enormous Appetites, Simple Lives: A Conversation with Virginia Zaharieva
Enormous Appetites, Simple Lives: A Conversation with Virginia Zaharieva
By Jennifer Abel Kovitz
April 07, 2014

Virginia Zaharieva, author of Black Balloon Publishing's new novel Nine Rabbits, discusses her book, her philosophy on food and her native Bulgaria.

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Wearing Your Fiction on Your Sleeve
Wearing Your Fiction on Your Sleeve
By Freddie Moore
March 19, 2014

Simon Jacobs, editor of Safety Pin Review, discusses his D.I.Y. literary magazine and Saturn, his new collection of stories about David Bowie.

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It's 2014 & There's Still a Blacksmith Working in Central Park
It's 2014 & There's Still a Blacksmith Working in Central Park
By Robert Tutton
March 18, 2014

Blacksmith Larry Hagberg brings a lifetime of experience to a centuries-old craft at a workshop hidden in Central Park.

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What Does an Actual Irish Person Living in America Think of St. Patrick’s Day?
What Does an Actual Irish Person Living in America Think of St. Patrick’s Day?
By Patrick Kilkelly
March 17, 2014

Talking day-drinking, green beer and drunk parades with someone who doesn’t associate that with St. Patrick’s Day.

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What was the First Sex Scene You Ever Read?
What was the First Sex Scene You Ever Read?
By Michelle King
February 12, 2014

Modern authors, editors and literati discuss their first encounters with the literary sex scene.

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Death as an Obstacle: An Interview with Stephin Merritt
Death as an Obstacle: An Interview with Stephin Merritt
By Kate Gavino
July 30, 2013

Stephin Merritt discusses sci-fi, hackneyed metaphors and how his music-making process involves two “different species of beaver.” 

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Peter Lerangis on Ghostwriting the Baby-Sitter's Club and the Future of YA Lit
Peter Lerangis on Ghostwriting the Baby-Sitter's Club and the Future of YA Lit
By Kate Gavino
May 03, 2013

An interview with Peter Lerangis, ghostwriter for The Baby-Sitter's Club and Sweet Valley High , thus making him the unsung hero of your adolescence. 

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