Jan
31
2010
The Clarity Sessions
“You said you’d been looted just a few days ago
but they left a Murakami and a bottle of Pernod.”
The Michigan-born troubadour sits down for a studio session.
Ian Link is a folk singer living in Detroit.
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Jan
31
2010
The Fogged Clarity Interview
The Great Lake Swimmers’ frontman discusses water, music, and Murakami
Tony Dekker is the lead singer and songwriter of the Toronto-based band Great Lake Swimmers.
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Dec
30
2009
The Clarity Sessions
Michigan musician Annie Palmer talks and plays.
Annie Palmer is a Michigan-based folk musician born in Chattanooga, TN.
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Dec
30
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
The poet on sexuality, vulnerability and Breakfast with Thom Gunn.
You can purchase Mann’s collection, Breakfast with Thom Gunn here.
Randall Mann is a poet living in San Francisco. His first collection, Complaint in the Garden was awarded the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry. He is the co-author of the textbook, Writing Poems (2007), and his second collection, Breakfast with Thom Gunn was released in April 2009 by The University of Chicago Press.
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Nov
30
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
The poet discusses the medium he loves.
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Bob Holman is a poet and the proprietor of New York’s Bowery Poetry Club. Mr. Holman has authored several collections, including The Collect Call of the Wild, Beach Simplifies Horizon and Tear to Open. He created and produced the PBS special, The United States of Poetry and currently teaches writing at Columbia University.
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Oct
30
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
Author Daniel Pinchbeck expounds upon existence, psychedelics and politics while waiting for a lamb sandwich in an East Village bistro.
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Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002). He is the editorial director of the journal, Reality Sandwich.
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Oct
30
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
Ben talks to one of New York City’s premiere musicians.
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Stuart Bogie is a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, composer, arranger, and producer operating out of New York. He has performed with, among many others, The Roots, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Wu-Tang Clan, Gomez and Sinehead O’Conner, and arranged TV on the Radio’s award winning album, Dear Science. Bogie frequently performs in the city with his own band, Superhuman Happiness.
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Sep
29
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
Jeffrey Rotter joins Ben Evans in a Park Slope beer garden to discuss his novel, The Unknown Knowns. Watch the book trailer, entitled The Museum of the Aquatic Ape. The Unknown Knowns is available for purchase on Amazon.
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Jeffrey Rotter is the author of The Unknown Knowns. He holds an MFA from Hunter College where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, and Andrew Sean Greer and was awarded the Hertog fellowship to perform research for Jennifer Egan. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and young son.
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Sep
29
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
The songwriter sits down with Ben to play and discuss I Was An Aeroplane.
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Darrick Thompson is a Washington born musician currently living and recording in Chicago.
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Aug
30
2009
The Fogged Clarity Interview
The author sits down with Ben Evans to discuss his writing, childhood, and grandfather Ernest.
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John Hemingway is an American writer and translator living in Montreal. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir.
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