The Believer, Issue 56: September 2008

by Heidi Julavits (Editor), Ed Park (Editor), Vendela Vida (Editor)

Series: Believer Magazine (56)

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The Believer is an amiable yet rigorous forum for book criticism, providing an alternative to the plot summary squib that has become synonymous with "book review." Each issue includes interviews with philosophers, politicians, poets, and ninjas. Nick Hornby has a widely celebrated books column, and Amy Sedaris (as well as well-known guest-columnists) offers hilariously bad advice. The celebrated graphic novelist Charles Burns illustrates the cover each month, and the magazine is packaged with a tactileand varying bonus item -- a CD, DVD, temporary tattoos, and so on.… (more)

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Vol. 6, no. 7 includes 'Where's Nancy? by Franklin Bruno, an article on Joe Brainard's The Nancy Book

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Julavits, Heidi	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Park, Ed	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Vida, Vendela	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed

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The Believer is an amiable yet rigorous forum for book criticism, providing an alternative to the plot summary squib that has become synonymous with "book review." Each issue includes interviews with philosophers, politicians, poets, and ninjas. Nick Hornby has a widely celebrated books column, and Amy Sedaris (as well as well-known guest-columnists) offers hilariously bad advice. The celebrated graphic novelist Charles Burns illustrates the cover each month, and the magazine is packaged with a tactileand varying bonus item -- a CD, DVD, temporary tattoos, and so on.

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