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James Yeh

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New York, Santa Catarina
As seen in: The Believer, The New York Times, VICE, VICE UK, The New England Journal of Medicine, Inverse, The European Heart Journal, Mic, TASTE Cooking, McSweeney's, Dissent Magazine and
Writer, editor, journalist, @Columbia writing prof. @mcsweeneys, @believermag, @VICE alum. Words in @nymag, @nytimes, @guardian, @thedrift_mag, @NOONannual.
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An Interview with Percival Everett

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By James Yeh 
| The Believer
Where to begin with a writer like Percival Everett? The author of more than thirty books, primarily novels, he defies easy distillation. An absurdist and a cowboy, a Westerner and an ex-Southerner, a mender of defunct mandolins and a nurse to fallen crows. At sixty-four, he is an accomplished abstract painter and an erstwhile jazz guitarist; he fly-fishes, has spent significant time considering Wittgenstein, and is a father to two adolescent sons.
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“He Trusted the Author”: Remembering Giancarlo DiTrapano

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By James Yeh 
| The Believer
Hell’s Kitchen, July 2012 (photo by Brooks Sterritt) Independent publishing is, I don’t have to tell you, kind of a shit place: first you lose your time, and then you waste your money, to paraphrase artist and ex-publisher Paul Chan, who would know.
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“He Trusted the Author”: Remembering Giancarlo DiTrapano

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By James Yeh 
| Believer Magazine
Independent publishing is, I don’t have to tell you, kind of a shit place: first you lose your time, and then you waste your money, to paraphrase artist and ex-publisher Paul Chan, who would know. But it’s people like Gian—otherwise known as Giancarlo DiTrapano, the intrepid editor, publisher, writer, rabble-rouser, and West Virginian who founded New York Tyrant magazine and its imprint Tyrant Books and succumbed prematurely, monstrously last week at forty-seven—who remind us why it matters.
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