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Writing Roundabout: An Interview with Sam Stephenson
Sam is interviewed by The Paris Review‘s managing editor, Nicole Rudick. The results offer an inside look at the making of Gene Smith’s Sink.
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The Greatest Jazz Photograph
Charlie Parker was born ninety-seven years ago today in Kansas City. The date makes me think of my favorite jazz photograph, two versions of which are here, by Bob Parent. The Open Door in Greenwich Village in September 1953. Very few historic jazz photographs render the whole band. For my money, this could be the
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The Process of Not Knowing: Conversation with Allan Gurganus
A conversation between Sam and novelist Allan Gurganus, to whom Gene Smith’s Sink is dedicated, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s Works in Progress.
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A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary
A friend recommended this book because I’m currently working on an excavation project involving the year 1995 and this is Eno’s diary from that year. It’s currently out of print. Somebody like New York Review Books should consider republishing it. I read a few pages every night and I find wonderful nuggets on every
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Early Commentary on Gene Smith’s Sink
As a unit, this early group of quotes says a lot.
