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Cornelia Shields has been trying to transcribe all the details of her father’s death, but she says it’s hard. “I’m trying to get it all down,” she told me over the phone last Wednesday, “My dad was never so proud of me as the day he found out I was keeping a diary. I keep [...]

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Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Parts one through three appeared earlier in the week and can be accessed through the archives. This is the fourth and final installment [...]

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Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Parts one and two appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday. Further installments will appear this week. TN: I know this is going to sound [...]

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Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Further installments will appear this week. TN: There’s a lot of talk about some of the damage that MFA programs can do to [...]

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Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Further installments will appear this week. TN: I’ve just spent the morning reading back through your work, from the first book you published, [...]

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Over the course of 2003 and 2004, David Berman, author of Actual Air and the creative force behind the band Silver Jews, corresponded with Travis Nichols through email about poetry, songwriting, and the charm of 5:30. This quasi interview has appeared in two parts, both prefaced by this email, which Berman sent a few days [...]

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Over the course of 2003 and 2004, David Berman, author of Actual Air and the creative force behind the band Silver Jews, corresponded with Travis Nichols through email about poetry, songwriting, and pleasing the French. This quasi interview will appear in two parts, both prefaced by this email, which Berman sent a few days ago: [...]

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In September of 1999, venerable Athens, Georgia singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt talked with Travis Nichols about shooting coke and being a pilot. It was rainy and a little bit cold, but they sat on Vic’s porch and stayed dry. The transcript of their conversation originally appeared in Flagpole Magazine in October of that year. This is [...]

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In September of 1999, venerable Athens, Georgia singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt talked with Travis Nichols about LSD and Daniel Johnston. It was rainy and a little bit cold, but they sat on Vic’s porch and stayed dry. The transcript of their conversation originally appeared in Flagpole Magazine in October of that year. This is the fourth [...]

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In September of 1999, venerable Athens, Georgia singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt talked with Travis Nichols about Jeff Mangum and “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” It was rainy and a little bit cold, but they sat on Vic’s porch and stayed dry. The transcript of their conversation originally appeared in Flagpole Magazine in October [...]

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