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12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Stille Nacht
Blake is one of the most observant, meticulous authors we know, and he specializes in writing biographies of other writers—a very tricky thing to do well.
Blake Bailey
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

A Conversation With the Porn Rangers
I put my headphones on and began to watch a hirsute man, probably early 40s, receive oral sex from a thin-lipped woman of commensurate age. The byline in block letters read, “BJ From the Wife.”
Jon Benjamin
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Max Brooks
Anybody who cares about the state of the world and what happens to people when disease and wars happen should read World War Z by Max Brooks. It’s a fictional oral history of “the zombie war.”
Andy Capper, Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: Dan Monic
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Putti
Will Self’s books are about stuff like a woman growing a penis and raping her abusive husband (Cock and Bull). I mean, he’s Will Self. It’s a pretty big deal.
Will Self
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Field
A master of the short story, Beattie first gained recognition with Chilly Scenes of Winter and Distortions. She scathingly shredded on yuppies way before the rest of America blamed them for everything.
Ann Beattie
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Goodbye
Simon Crump was born in Leicestershire. After crawling out of the middle of the Midlands he found himself being an internationally exhibited artist and lecturing in fine art and photography.
Simon Crump
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Defender of Snakes
I thought of her as the defender of snakes. She was a German woman with shaggy, sandy blond hair. The first time I saw her, she was sitting with a group of paragliders at the Friends coffee shop.
Amie Barrodale
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Les Krims
These manipulated Polaroids were originally published in the 1975 book, Fictcryptokrimsographs: A Book-Work by Les Krims (Humpy Press).
Les Krims
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Harry Crews
Harry Crews had just about every job a man might have to take in his lifetime—from working in a cigar factory all the way up (or maybe down) to teaching creative writing.
Jesse Pearson, Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: John Zeu
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Intelligence
Everything becomes 100 percent better when you come across something like what Seth sent us.
Seth Fried
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Obscenity, Who Really Cares? John Calder Keeps on Keeping on
It’s telling that Calder decided to name the company after himself as his endearing willfulness made him one of the most litigated-against publishers of the mid-20th century.
Huw Nesbitt; Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: Ben Rayn
12.2.08
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