Alex Dueben

RECENT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

• The Undeniable Bisexuality of Gilda: Making the case for the 1946 noir classic as an iconic queer film. CrimeReads.

• Preserving Connecticut’s History: A Conversation with Ilene Frank. Connecticut Voice.

• Designing Sweeney Todd: Luke Cantarella and Fabian Aguilar on the set and aesthetic. Hartford Arts Pages.

• Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife Continues to Inspire: The novel is a living conversation between art and poetry, the past and the present, nature and community. Reactor.

• “I realized how hilarious it is to do a gorgeous, realistic picture of a disgusting mess”: A Taste of Jennifer Hayden. The Comics Journal.

• Tim Balme on TV Writing, New Zealand, and How Columbo Influenced His Detective Series. CrimeReads.

• Kasia Babis and Seth Tobocman on Looking for that Elusive Ethical Boundary. The Comics Journal.

• A Poetry Collection Where Play Collapses the Limits of Language: Anna Nygren’s “blush / river / fox” is a foray into the exuberant capacities of multilingual writing. Electric Literature.

• The Remarkable Power of Robert Arthur, Jr.'s Three Investigators Series. CrimeReads.

• “It's very scary and very exciting”: Jacques Lamarre on the world premiere of Circus Fire and building a life in Hartford. Connecticut Voice.

• The GLBTQ Archives at Central Connecticut State University: Preserving the Past and Looking to the Future. Connecticut Voice.

• Site Lines: Walnut Hill Park: A Landscape of Community and Commemoration. Connecticut Explored.

• Valerie Wilson Wesley on the Harlem Renaissance and Writing Historical Mysteries. CrimeReads.

• Max Allan Collins on Dashiell Hammett, Private Eyes, and picking up where The Maltese Falcon left off. CrimeReads.

The Los Angeles Review of Books

• The Art of Translating Comics: A Conversation with Hannah Chute

• Sitting in Silence: A Conversation with Dash Shaw

• It Takes a Deep Reading. And an Obsession: An Interview with Paul Karasik

• Comics and Storytelling: A Conversation with Mat Johnson

• A Quiet Conflagration: An Interview with Gabrielle Bell

• Black Dog: An Interview with Dave McKean

• Soldier’s Heart: A Conversation with Carol Tyler

The Millions

• Poetry Editor-in-Chief Adrian Matejka Looks to the Future

• The Element of Silence: The Millions Interviews N. Scott Momaday

• The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón

• You Can’t Help Being a Person: The Millions Interviews Maureen McLane

• Celebrating What Defines Us: The Millions Interviews Joshua Bennett

• It’s Our Time: Cave Canem’s Founder on the Power of Poetry

• Writing Has To Have an Edge: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman

• Words Can Sustain and Save Us: An Interview with Marie Howe

• The Story is Never the Whole Story: An Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn

• Patricia Smith Wants You To Hear Every Gunshot

The Brooklyn Rail

• The Cyborg Jillian Weise in Conversation with Alex Dueben

• Martín Espada in Conversation with Alex Dueben

• Exiles of Eden: Ladan Osman in Conversation with Alex Dueben

• Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Conversation with Alex Dueben

• Language is Always a Shared Occasion: A Conversation with Fady Joudah

• Ordinary Beast: A Conversation with Nicole Sealey

• Everything Lost Will Be Given a Name: Safia Elhillo with Alex Dueben

• Mz N: Maureen McLane with Alex Dueben

The Poetry Foundation

• Late Happiness: W.S. Merwin on His Long Career and Trying to Enjoy His Luck

• Filling a Vacuum: Kwame Dawes on Directing the African Poetry Book Fund

• Living Tradition: Clare Cavanagh Talks about the Joys and Challenges of Translation

• At Eagle Pond: Donald Hall Reflects on Life After Poetry

• Field of Power: Fady Joudah is known as much for his own verse as for his translations

• Summer Nights in the Round: On 20 Years of Connecticut’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival

Vulture

• How Cartoonist Keith Knight’s Life and Work Evolved into Hulu’s Woke

• Inside Psusy, New Zealand’s Answer to Broad City

• Ahead of Its Time, The John Larroquette Show Was Brilliant

• 1942’s Woman of the Year Remains a Contemporary Romantic Comedy, But Not Necessarily for Good Reasons

• How His Girl Friday, One of the Best Movies of All Time, Led to Today’s TV Dramedies

• Paul Reiser Wants to Take You Back to the Glory Days of The Tonight Show

• How Mad About You Perfected the Network Multi-Camera Sitcom

• How Sea Tea Improv Built a Comedy Scene From Scratch

• Inside Portland’s Live Wire! Radio

Crimereads

• Tim Balme on TV Writing, New Zealand, and How Columbo Influenced His Detective Series

• Amie McNee on historical fiction, Queen Elizabeth, and writing her first murder mystery

• Sophie Hannah on How She Writes a Poirot Novel

• Lou Berney on Archetypes, Writing Big Books, and 1990s Russia

• Artis Henderson on Investigating the Plane Crash That Killed her Father

• Gabriel Urza on Legal Thrillers, Justice, and a Broken System

• Elly Griffiths on Victorian London, Time Travel, and her new mystery The Frozen People

• Shaina Steinberg on Writing Historical Fiction set in Los Angeles

• Anthony Horowitz on Mystery, Metafiction, and a New Susan Ryland Novel (And Show)

• Chris Offutt on Outlaws, Scofflaws, and Kentucky Noir

The Paris Review

• Technical, Tactical, and Merciless: An Interview with Marcus Wicker

• Mistaken Self-Portraits: An Interview with Meghan O’Rourke

• You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker

• The Looming Dark: An Interview with Linda Pastan

• Good Literary Citizens: An Interview with Ladan Osman

• The Afterlife of the Voice: An Interview with Peter Gizzi

• A World Beyond the Glass: An Interview with Mary Szybist

• Gathering the Poems Together: A Conversation with Gregory Orr

The Rumpus

• Constellations of Identity: A Conversation with J. Michael Martinez

• The Inadvertent Postmodernist: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman

• Looking For Ghosts: A Conversation with John Freeman

• What Appears To Be Fiction: A Conversation with Nicole Krauss

• The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht

• The Rumpus Interview with LaShonda Katrice Barnett

• The Rumpus Interview with Robert Boswell

The Comics Journal

• The Dying of the Light: My Grandmother, Dementia, Time in the Comic Strip, and Roses in December by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers

• “One of the Things They Definitely Are Is Queer.”: An Interview with Rachel Pollack

• “But You Get Up Again. And Then You Get Up Again. And Again.”: The Liam Sharp Interview

• “I Really Wasn’t Considering the Reader At All”: A Conversation with Ariel Bordeaux

• “We Were Never Comforting. And We’re Not Comforting Now.”: The Denys Cowan Interview

• “It Is Rare For Them Not To All Run Together In My Mind, Assuming I Recall Them At All”: The Stuart Immonen Comics Journal Interview

• “This Was Cultural Genocide”: An Interview with Joe Sacco

• “Year Abroad. Dumb Luck. Decent Taste.”: An Interview with Edward Gauvin

• An Interview with Katherine Collins. Part One. Part Two.

• An Interview with José Muñoz

• An Interview with Sophie Campbell

• The Carlos Giménez Interview

• An Oral History of Wimmen’s Comix. Part One. Part Two.

The Believer

• The Process: Jules Feiffer

Literary Hub

• If Charlie Brown Were a Socialist: On Beloved Argentine Comic Strip Mafalda

Electric Literature

• A Poetry Collection Where Play Collapses the Limits of Language

• The Queer Club Culture Novel We Didn’t Know We Needed

• A Graphic Novel That Exposes the Failures of the American Experiment

Mubi Notebook

• Fogbound: On Dash Shaw’s “Blurry”

Reactor Magazine

• Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife Continues to Inspire: The novel is a living conversation between art and poetry, the past and the present, nature and community

• Revisiting Patricia McKillip’s Timely, Timeless Fantasy: A short tribute to the work of one of SFF's greatest writers and storytellers

The Gutter Review

• Black Metropolis and The Rise of Afrofuturism: An Interview with Tim Fielder

Connecticut Voice

• Preserving Connecticut’s History: A Conversation with Ilene Frank

• “It's very scary and very exciting”: Jacques Lamarre on the World Premiere of Circus Fire and Building a Life in Hartford

• The GLBTQ Archives at Central Connecticut State University: Preserving the Past and Looking to the Future

• Belonging is Baked In: A Conversation with Tony Palmieri of Cromwell’s Tony’s Flour Shop

• “Science fiction is bathed in queerness”: A conversation with Susan Jane Bigelow

• “My Anger Problems Became a Success”: Artist Diane DiMassa on the collection of her classic underground comic

• Connecticut Sun: Playing for Good

• Ashley Flagg: The Laurel

• Drawing on Experience: KC Councilor

• Baked Into the Community: Small State Provisions is more than a bakery

Hartford Arts Pages

• Designing Sweeney Todd

• Audio Jane Serves Song

• Hip-Hop vs Homelessness

• Two Theaters, One City

Bi.org

• Bi Book Club: But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson

• Bi Book Club: Lavash at First Sight by Taleen Voskuni

• Behind the Mask: The Inherent Queerness of Superheroes with Steve Orlando

• Jen Winston Talks About Embracing and Pushing Against Bisexual Stereotypes in “Greedy”

• Jennifer Baumgardner Talks Feminism and “Bisexual Politics”

• Melissa Febos Talks About Listening, Writing and her Bisexuality

• Lane Moore Talks Bisexuality, Books, and Surviving a Pandemic

The Daily Beast

• Drive Author James Sallis on his Sequel, Driven

• Book Review: Fair Play by Tove Jansson

Podcast Review

• 7 Great Books Written by Podcasters

• My Love for Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Cafe

Publishers Weekly

• Just Follow the Thread: PW Talks with Ted Kooser

• Richard Mcguire Finds the Past and Future in “Here”

SyFy Wire

• Terry Brooks talks ending Shannara, why it’s not his best work, and more

• “There’s This Wound”: Kiku Hughes Uses Sci-Fi To Explore Generational Trauma in Deeply Personal Displacement

• Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem Turns a Real-Life Explorer Into a Classic Pulp Hero

• Polar: How an indie webcomic made the leap to Netflix Original

• The Creators of Limetown preview their TV show and podcast endgame

• The Thrilling Adventure Hour writers on translating podcasts to comic books and Amelia Earhart punching Nazis

Comic Book Resources

• Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do is Already Among Comics’ Best Memoirs

• My Favorite Thing is Monsters Author Talks 2017’s Buzziest Graphic Novel

• Cartoonist Seth Tobocman on Art, Activism, and Advice in the Age of Trump

• Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar on Crafting a Show About Family, Love – And Aliens

• Congressman John Lewis Recalls the Civil Rights Movement in March

• 20 Thoughts About The Wes Anderson Collection

• Remembering Al Williamson

The Beat

• Neal Adams: A Remembrance

• Tina Horn Reveals Her Comics Origin Story

• Getting Under the Skin with Kate Lacour

• Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil Use Their Comic Verax To Ask What Our Privacy Is Worth

• Pulitzer Finalize Jen Sorensen Talks the True Horrors of DeVos and Trump-Era Political Comics

• Marty Two Bulls, Sr. Speaks Out on DAPL and the Role of Journalism in an Unstable Time

• Daniel Alarcón Discusses His Fascination with the City of Clowns

• Riad Sattouf on Growing Up Between France and Syria in The Arab of the Future

• The Legendary R.O. Blechman on the Beauty of Film and the Graphic Novel

Smash Pages

• The Woman in the Woods anthology interview

• The Mañana Anthology interview

• Al Jaffee’s MAD Retirement

• Q&A with Robin Galante

• 10 Thoughts on Interviewing Cartoonists

• R.I.P. Bill Schelly

• David F. Walker on The Life of Frederick Douglass

• L Nichols on Flocks

• Ben Passmore on Daygloayhole and more

• Stephanie Graegin on Super Manny Stands Up!

• Janice Macleod on A Paris Year

Film Threat

• Spettacolo. Directed by Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen.

• A Critically Endangered Species. Written and directed by Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak.