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Robert Rea

London
As seen in: BBC, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), The Herald (Glasgow), Camden New Journal, Oxford American, Med-Tech Innovation, DEVOPSdigest, Southwest Review
Journalist, formerly BBC News for many years, now writer/producer for hire. Chelsea fan, reluctant runner (see blog below), celebrity queue-er. Went viral once
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Gossip, Desire, and Mortality

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By Robert Rea
| Southwest Review
Lorenzo is a Colombian painter who one day enters a state of putrefaction; the first thing to die is a fingernail. After putting the decision off for a long time, even though his body is telling him in no uncertain terms that something unknown and irreversible is about to happen, he finally takes the plunge and finds out why that body is rotting.
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Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations

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By Robert Rea
| Southwest Review
The following is an excerpt from Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations by Drew Lerman. A note from the publisher Cram Books: “Drew’s daily chats with the legendary 89-year-old novelist lead him on an odyssey through the contemporary American canon and into the heart of his own existential dread.
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Known Associates | Episode 7: Amanda Petrusich

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By Robert Rea
| Southwest Review
In Episode 7 of Known Associates, a podcast brought to you by New Pony in affiliation with Southwest Review, we come to you LIVE from SwR’s annual Frontera Festival in Dallas, TX! For this very special event, Elizabeth sat down with Amanda Petrusich, staff writer for The New Yorker, who stands shoulder to shoulder with the greatest working music critics today. Her profiles are the stuff of legend, and her books are essential reads for any music fan.
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