Jun
30
2010
The Fogged Clarity Interview
Sincere. Honest. Hilarious.
Boston comedian Bill Burr sits down to discuss church, age, and Howard Cosell.
• Subscribe to Bill’s “Monday Morning Podcast.”
• Purchase Bill’s stand-up specials here.
Bill Burr is a comedian from Boston. His stand-up specials have been featured on HBO and Comedy Central, he has performed on Letterman and Conan O’Brien, appeared on Chappelle’s Show, and is the co-host of the XM radio program, Uninformed. His new hour-long special, Let it Go is soon to be released.
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May
31
2010
Directed and filmed by Lee McEwen
Israeli-born folk musician Amir Darzi sits down to talk and play in Brooklyn last month.
Amir Darzi is a folk-rock musician born and raised in Israel. He currently lives in Brooklyn where he is recording his first full-length release.
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Apr
30
2010
The Fogged Clarity Interview
Author Tom Matlack discusses the passion and purpose behind his Good Men Project.
You can purchase the book here.


Tom Matlack is a writer living and working in Boston. In 2008, he founded The Good Men Project, and has since appeared frequently on television and radio across the country. His essays and stories have been published in Boston Globe Magazine, Yale, Boston Magazine, Penthouse, Wesleyan, Boston Common, Tango, and Pop Matters. He is the former CFO of The Providence Journal.
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Mar
30
2010
The Clarity Sessions
West Michigan’s favorite folk duo sits down to play and discuss the inspiration behind their fourth album, Turn Back a Page.

Ruth and Max Bloomquist are a West Michigan folk duo who have made music together for the past 35 years. They have recorded and released four albums, the last two of which have received international airplay.
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Mar
30
2010
The Fogged Clarity Interview
A deep dive into process, aesthetic, and Wild Child with one of contemporary fiction’s kindest and classiest masters.
Watch the book trailer below and purchase Wild Child here.





T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-one books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), and Wild Child (2010). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish and Farsi. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney’s, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.
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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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