At Length

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    James Pomerantz

    Photography inspirations, the Caucasus and treading the halls in school, are the subject of photographer James Pomerantz’s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their latest feature for At Length.

  • Owl Wolf Ghost

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    A host of creatures stalks the outer reaches of intimacy as Paula Bohince conjures human and inhuman, natural and supernatural wills.

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    Finch (Original Soundtrack)

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    At Length joins novelist Jeff Vandermeer and rock band Murder by Death’s Adam Turla in a conversation about the latter’s haunting soundtrack to Vandermeer’s darkly fantastic detective novel, Finch, the third and final volume in his award-winning Ambergris Trilogy.

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    Ruins

    Antique processes, collaboration and the art of Ruins, are the subject of photographer Beth Dow’s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their inaugural feature for At Length.

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    The Whole Tree Gone

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    Dynamic pianist and composer Myra Melford talks to At Length about her new record, The Whole Tree Gone, and pushing the boundaries of geography, genre and gender.

  • Layoff

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    Craig Morgan Teicher responds to a lost job with a wide-ranging meditation on money, family, poetry, and responsibility, as well as the relationships that threaten to slip through the cracks.

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    Marcela Silva’s Galactic Objects

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    Artist Marcela Silva corresponds with At Length about sculpting and painting her “celestial peculiarities,” and discovering the “profoundly huge expanse” of both science and art.

  • Homecoming
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    Running out of trouble in Bed-Stuy — and into it in Virginia. A new story from Belle Boggs, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Prize in Fiction.

  • In the Red Dress I Wear to Your Funeral

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    A spurned lover turns her grief into a virtuoso performance of vengeance, wit, and affection, aspiring to the moment when she can “step away free.” By Erin Belieu.

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    Husbands

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    Jason Urick, the laptop sound collagist from the sadly defunct Baltimore collective Wzt Hearts, talks to At Length about his new album, Husbands, composing with computers, and the unspeakable genius of Nicolas Cage.

  • from Effacement

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    In an excerpt from her next book, Elizabeth Arnold weaves together medicine, history, and literature to evoke a body that is in and of the world.

  • Limbs Move Wind In

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    Kristina Jipson shifts perspectives through a series of overlapping poems that excavate rooms and reach into reflections.

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    A Correspondence with James Kao

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    Painter James Kao talks with Elaine Bleakney about light, language, Balthus, and clouds — and shares a gallery of his work in the first of our series of correspondences with artists.

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    Rated O

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    Fat Bobby of Brooklyn stalwarts Oneida discusses their triple-disc behemoth, Rated O, and taking their “O”cropolis to the people at All Tomorrow’s Parties this Fall.

  • Beneath the Trees

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    New York, 1920: Sol grabs a girl good. 1937: Sol draws a cake. 1963: Sol saves a purse. An immigrant’s life in America, in three chapters, from Erica Eisdorfer, the author of the new novel The Wet Nurse’s Tale.