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An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · Sep 22

“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.”

—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social

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The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...

It’s the Writer’s Job To Say Something True - Electric Literature

One year later, 6 authors reflect on the experience of publishing their most recent book

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wrote about a recent ER all-nighter & my relationship to pain: substack.com/home/post/p-...

On Pain

my all-night odyssey in the ER & turning setbacks into keys

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · Aug 22

Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle.bsky.social, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @blondieband.bsky.social, and Richard Ayoade, conducted by @rokwon.bsky.social, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, and more.

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wrote about last weekend's fight: fightweek.substack.com/p/let-the-lo...

Let the Loss Become Fuel

fight week re-cap

notes on performance & fear

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Every time I thought about the event I felt like vomiting on my shoes"

Laura Van Den Berg on stage fright - something horribly familiar to most writers - and how to dull it into submission

lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...

The Edge of the Cliff

notes on performance & fear

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...

The Edge of the Cliff

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks for coming out!

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · Jul 15

@lauravandenberg.bsky.social reading from state of paradise

A woman standing between bookshelves at a microphone reading from her novel

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 30

NYC! We'd love to see you at Florida Night! tomorrow (July 1), 6:30 PM, at P & T Knitwear. Super excited to be joining forces w Kristen Arnett, Gabriella Burnham, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, & Lynn Steger Strong. We're gonna have a good time. ptknitwear.com/events

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hudson Valley people: wildly excited to help host Catherine Lacey TONIGHT for The Möbius Book: 6:30 PM, Northern Spy Reading Series at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill. This will be very fun & you do not want to miss it!

Cake | Laura van den Berg

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Curtis Brown, Ltd @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social · Jun 16

Come out to P&T Knitwear on TUESDAY, JULY 1ST at 6:30pm, where our lovely @lauravandenberg.bsky.social will appear for FLORIDA NIGHT to talk about her novel STATE OF PARADISE!

#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · Jun 6

Baffler no. 79 features new short fiction from @lauravandenberg.bsky.social‬. In “Cake,” every treat is a burden, and every burden is an opportunity.

Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.

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Gothamist @gothamist.com · Jun 5

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming Democratic primary for New York City mayor — delivering a jolt to the crowded race with less than nine days until early voting starts: bit.ly/45bpiU6

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 5

I wrote about boxing as the loneliest sport + what makes a community hold: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Loneliest Sport

on what makes a community hold

substack.com

lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

🌴❤️

What do you do with a love like that?

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Jun 4

It seems to us that if you're anywhere near the Southeast, this is the event you should be headed to on July 1. That lineup is bonkers.

lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · May 29

A delight & an honor to interview @mcrane12.bsky.social on FIGHT WEEK!

Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · May 29

I have an interview up with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social on her amazing substack FIGHT WEEK, check it out 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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An Interview with Mac Crane

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lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · May 16

New newsletter is up! Wrote about what happens on a Fight Week + AMA. fightweek.substack.com/p/what-happe...

What Happens on Fight Week

plus my first ever AMA

lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

April newsletter is on finishing what we start: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-deep-end

Kinderhook Books | The Rough Notes Craft Talks | Laura van den Berg

lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social · Mar 25

Last call to register for this 2 session class on character! We will talk craft, read, write, Q & A. We will do deep dives into what characters need to do & do not need to do & what allows a character to feel alive-alive on the page. www.eventbrite.com/e/kinderhook...

Join Laura van den Berg for her two-part fiction Craft Talk—"Discovering Character"—and write your novel with us!

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