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The Believer September 2009
Closing Time
by Rich Cohen
With the steep decline of the American auto industry, has the car salesman become like the cowboy c. 1910, at the closing of the frontier?
My Father's Murder
by Stephen Elliott
An attempt to assemble the truth from pulp novels, old photographs, nonexistent police reports, and memories of violence.
Dark Family
by Sara Gran & Megan Abbott
A reconsideration of V. C. Andrews's much-maligned, utterly strange quasi children's literature.
Childeish Ideas
by J. T. Thomas
On the grand ideas and strange habits of one of the most influential, brilliant, and iconoclastic archaeologists of the twentieth century.
Carving the Whale
by Damion Searls
Rescuing the digression, texture, and weirdness from a well-meaning abridgement of Moby-Dick.
Sedaratives
by Anne Beatts
Real Life Rock Top Ten
by Greil Marcus
Rebecca Solnit
interviewed by Benjamin Cohen
"How can you write about the obscure things that give you pleasure with a style flexible enough to come to more urgent matters?"
The Deathbed Version: a new poem
by Scott Zieher
Schema: A Classification of Shaggy-Dog Jokes
by Jude Stewart
One-Page Book Reviews
Laird Hunt on Percival Everett, Stephen Burt on Robert Minhinnick, Francesca Mari on Oscar Casares,
Lara Tupper on Jan Kjærstad, and Kate Zambreno on Elsa Morante.
Creative Accounting: Commissioned Play
by Christopher Benz
Philip Zimbardo
interviewed by Tamler Sommers
The man who conducted the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment considers its implications for ethics, free will, and Abu Ghraib.
Musin's and Thinkin's: a monthly column
Jack Pendarvis
Nick Cave
interviewed by Tony DuShane
The songwriter has kicked heroin, written a new novel, and is scoring the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
Brad Neely
micro-interviewed by Ken Burns (sort of)
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