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Nikki Glaser Is the Only Late-Night Host Who's Fearless Enough to Talk About Sex

Nikki Glaser Is the Only Late-Night Host Who's Fearless Enough to Talk About Sex

Esquire — Nikki Glaser is a comedian who has grown from a clever observer of life into a master performer that's comfortable laying bare her intimate experiences on stage. Her frank discussions of dating and sex in clubs and theaters parlay beautifully into more nuanced explorations on her Comedy Central series, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser.

Picnicking on Thin Ice: An Interview with Josh Emmons - Los Angeles Review of Books

Picnicking on Thin Ice: An Interview with Josh Emmons - Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books — JOSH EMMONS'S The Loss of Leon Meed (2005), a nimble and ambitious debut novel set in Northern California, follows a motley crew of small-town oddballs as they try and conjure up a missing person.

Pleiades Interview Series: Mihaela Moscaliuc

Pleiades Interview Series: Mihaela Moscaliuc

Pleiades — Mihaela Moscaliuc lived in Romania long enough to see the toppling of the Ceausescu dictatorship. After moving to the states for graduate work, she began writing about her experiences under Communist oppression,as well as the culture that existed behind the wall of news stories and international image.

"Creation is redemption."

"Creation is redemption."

The Believer Logger — Godself, by Alex Grey, 2012, oil on linen, 72 x 72 in. An Interview with Artist and Founder of the Church of Sacred Mirrors Alex Grey Alex Grey worked in a morgue long before he became a renowned painter.

Review: EASTMAN WAS HERE by Alex Gilvarry

Review: EASTMAN WAS HERE by Alex Gilvarry

Ploughshares — l Alex Gilvarry's 2012 debut, Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant , was a refreshing consideration of racial profiling, the immigrant experience, Eurasian politics, and how we individually define the American dream.

Review: LONESOME LIES BEFORE US by Don Lee

Review: LONESOME LIES BEFORE US by Don Lee

Ploughshares — In his new novel, Lonesome Lies Before Us , Don Lee pulls off the strange feat of connecting the life of Catholic poet Gerard Manly Hopkins to washed-up, small-town California musician, Yadin Park.

"Transformation, however limited that transformation may be": An Interview with Monica Youn

"Transformation, however limited that transformation may be": An Interview with Monica Youn

Prairie Schooner — Monica Youn is a poet interested in the intersection between the beauty we want in life, and the darkness that often serves as an invisible barrier for it. Youn's background in law allows her to probe and navigate these gray areas gently, using an economy of language that both cuts to the heart of the matter and reveals nuanced layers of caution, lust, and desperation.

[REVIEW] The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan - [PANK]

[REVIEW] The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan - [PANK]

PANK — Small, painful changes abound in Karan Mahajan's debut novel, The Association of Small Bombs. Revolving around two families and two market bombings, the work examines the ways people change, drift, and act out in an effort to stave off loss.

Jonathan Safran Foer's HERE I AM

Jonathan Safran Foer's HERE I AM

The Iowa Review — With Jonathan Safran Foer's gritty new novel, Here I Am, it's hard not to read it in the context of his recent public divorce. The 571-page work deals with a nearly middle-aged Jewish couple who are drifting apart and going through the motions of separation.