Tag: Joseph Riippi
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“Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp”: Interview and Thoughts by Joseph Riippi
So I did a little research on real-life fun camps. The Parks and Recreation in Webster, New York, offers a couple fun camps in the summertime, one for second and third graders, another for fourth and fifth graders. Camps are offered for older kids, too, but those are no longer deemed “fun.” For the youngsters,…
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“Aleksandar Hemon’s The Book of My Lives”: A Reflection by Joseph Riippi
Some things you should know about me. The day a new Radiohead record comes out, I buy it. The day a new Aaron Sorkin show premieres, I watch it. And the day a new Aleksandar Hemon book is announced, I find a galley and devour it. That’s not to say those things correlate. This is…
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“Cabbage Language”: Joseph Riippi Interviews Robert Duncan Gray
[Let’s call this paragraph a professional “full disclosure.” I first met Robert Duncan Gray as a publisher, not a poet (although one could say he had the look of a poet). Gray, alongside Lindsay Allison Ruoff and Riley Michael Parker, founded HOUSEFIRE Books a few years back. In 2011 they had asked me to…
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A Review of Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer by Joseph Riippi
Transcriber’s Note: What follows is, I think, a better review of Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer than I could ever have written on my own. I travel for business, you see. Just in the past week I’ve been to Atlanta, San Antonio, and Los Angeles, with quick trips back to…
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Veintiséis minutos, veintiséis segundos: HFR/Knee-Jerk/Big Lucks/The Way We Sleep AWP Chicago Event Podcast #3
Fall collection. Vampires. Brothers. Eggcheese soap. Figure skating. Wikipedia. Motherfucking dying. Big Lucks’ Mark C. intros Everything Will Be OK‘s third and final group of readers: figure skater Alissa Nutting, designer/brewer Joseph Riippi, and baseball pro J.A. Tyler.