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WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS DEFIANT

June 7, 2010 – 4:22 pm

Waters and Egan and Kramer (oh my) make this week a busy one. Lydia Davis and David Means grace us on Tuesday, and you’ll want to save your Saturday for Elliott Sharp, and bring your invisible dog. Just don’t forget who told you. More…

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LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS by Lydia Millet

October 7, 2009 – 4:48 pm

Courtesy of Soft Skull Press.
In Lydia Millet’s BOMB Interview with Jonathan Lethem, Millet speaks of her captivation with animals, saying “Animals are like rock stars, they have that charisma.” In Millet’s new short story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, she treats animals as rock star characters, paralleling them with real-life celebrities to create stories both eccentric and, in unexpected ways, honest.

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