Tag: portland mercury

• This and This and This Is Between Us

  Psssst. My new book snuck* into stores a few days ago and peoples be talking about it! Here are some of the fun places to read up about it… *A cool interview with Los Angeles arts blog, Yay! LA. This was a phone interview and I spoke with Daniel for about an hour while doing…

  Kevin Sampsell

  November 8, 2013

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  Bunk Bar, Busking at the Seams, Bustle, htmlgiant, lips, PDXX Collective, portland mercury, Powell’s, Reviews, This Is Between Us, Tin House, Yay LA

• Long Lost Eel

  So, gosh. I was just looking through my files for a particular story and I came across this interview I did with Mark Oliver Everett about three whole years ago. Although he’s mainly known for his musical endeavors as the rock band, Eels, he’s also the author of a really great memoir, Things the Grandchildren…

  Kevin Sampsell

  October 28, 2011

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  death, Dudes I Love, Eels, Interview, Mark Oliver Everett, Memoir, portland mercury

• The Essay You’ve All Been Waiting For

  Well, at least I’ve been waiting for it. I wrote it earlier this year and now it’s out. Snip Tuck: A Simple Vasectomy Goes Wrong is in this week’s Portland Mercury, which means all sorts of people in the town I live in will be reading it for free and then pointing at me and…

  Kevin Sampsell

  November 26, 2010

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  1000 Words, A Common Pornography, David Shields, Fugue, George Saunders, Melissa Favara, PNBA Award, portland mercury, Vasectomy, Writers’ Dojo

• When it rains, it pours

  A great smattering of stuff about A Common Pornography lately. Like… pg 57 of the new Poets & Writers Magazine! A sweet review on Blog Critics! The cover of The Portland Mercury! (they excerpted a part of the book) (I had no idea they were going to put my name right on the cover, but…

  Kevin Sampsell

  January 7, 2010

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  A Common Pornography, blog critics, Haiku, Mary Gaitskill, Oprah, Poets & Writers Magazine, portland mercury