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Issue 155 is live! Open this thread for a look at our fall issue, which features indie wrestling, “Body Alchemy,” Contact Improv, @katiekitamura, Kurt Vile, @TriciaLockwood, PJ Harvey as Mary Magdalene, and much more:
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Congratulations to the WNBA champion Golden State Valkyries! Read @alan_chazaro's interview with head coach Natalie Nakase here, from our 2025 Sports Issue:
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And pick up one of the last remaining copies of that issue here: store.mcsweeneys.net/product…
“I’ll be plain about this—I sought out horror at a very young age because I understood it. More than that, though, it was occurring... Everything we think is real is made of elegiac materials.”
From an interview with horror writer Tony Burgess: thebeliever.net/logger/2015-…
“The haunting sounds have always been there, the off-center instrumentals—they have been with me ever since I was a child.”
Angelo Badalamenti on composing for David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks”: thebeliever.net/an-interview…
Something not too scary for Halloween...
Everything in the McSweeney’s store is 13% off, including print and digital subscriptions to The Believer.
Sale runs through Sunday night: store.mcsweeneys.net/product…
The only protagonist of Roberto Bolaño’s work—the authentic heroine of his books—is literature itself.
From Issue 42 of The Believer, Rodrigo Fresán’s essay “The Savage Detective”: thebeliever.net/the-savage-d…
“‘He felt in her lips and arms a lonely employment of him.’ That’s a Gardnerian sentence. On its face it doesn’t even make sense. ‘Lonely employment’? And then you think about it a little. How many times have you felt such a lonely employment?”
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Our managing editor Ginger Greene will be at @CityLightsBooks on November 5 with Katherine Cusumano to discuss “The Work,” Cusumano’s Issue 155 feature on indie wrestling in the Pacific Northwest.
7 p.m. PT, in person and online. Free registration: citylights.com/events/the-be…
Discovering a life-animating, universe-size work of literary criticism of the sort that can’t be written anymore, shelved in the “Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor” at the San Francisco Public Library: thebeliever.net/a-glimpse-of…
From Issue 71.
“It can be a trope of the creative writing class, the idea that you should know everything about your character. You should know their favorite color. You should know what song they listen to when they’re sad. And I myself know none of those things.”
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“Brecht’s laughter infects the audience, Beckett’s laughter makes them squirm on their seats. Tabori’s humor is different... Tabori’s jokes bounce back and forth across the curtain line like tennis balls.”
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Join us for an evening at @CityLightsBooks on November 5th to celebrate the release of Issue 155.
Registration is free: citylights.com/events/the-be…
From Issue 107: @annehelen on the banality of the celebrity profile, and how it got that way: thebeliever.net/confidential…
“The stories of self told by the many victims of Chavez’s alleged rapes... held in the balance, preserved merely as a footnote on the legacy of a powerful man. What action should one take, with such a nuanced, carefully worded story of now?”
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“What happens when the story of self is met with a ‘proverbial shrug’?”
In the second installment of her new web column on speechwriting, Leah Abrams probes the limits of the rhetorical model Obama used to introduce himself to America in ‘08.
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“Anxiety is fear of the unknown, of that which cannot be controlled or predicted. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is an extended assault by the uncontrollable and the unpredicted. This seems especially cruel.”
—@brad___phillips, “The Other Epidemic”: thebeliever.net/the-other-ep…
Why do we so desperately need to know the details of Kafka’s life?
From our archive: “The Man Who Could Not Disappear,” an essay by Jeff Fort.
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“In 1932, when Marinetti and his fellow Futurists scanned the horizon for another bastion of Italian culture begging for modernization, they chose to publish not just a cookbook, but one violently opposed to the mainstay of Italian cuisine: pasta.”
thebeliever.net/a-futurist-b…
“I want to write off dance forever, but before I can, I must understand why people love it, and what I might be missing out on by refusing to join in. I believe that contempt prior to a thorough investigation is the way of the coward.”
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“Listers compared notes. Rain trousers hissed. Enormous telephoto lenses swung like toy rifles or Les Paul guitars.”
@randlebrowning embarks on a pelagic with some of America’s most dedicated birders: thebeliever.net/how-to-watch…
