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Kurt Baumeister

Writer, Author of PAX AMERICANA

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  • PAX AMERICANA
    • PAX AMERICANA Press Release
    • Reviews and Praise
      • PAX AMERICANA Review/Author Interview at RAIN TAXI
      • PAX AMERICANA Selected to Best of 2017 List (PANK Magazine)
      • PAX AMERICANA: Coverage on National Book Critics Circle Blog by Daisy Fried
      • PAX AMERICANA Selected by LitReactor as One of the Best of 2017…So Far…
      • Pax Americana Reviewed by Critic John Domini for Vol. 1 Brooklyn
      • Jan Elizabeth Watson Reviews PAX AMERICANA for Electric Literature
      • Pax Americana Reviewed by Jennifer Spiegel for Live Oak Review
    • Excerpts from Pax Americana
      • An Excerpt from Pax Americana (Literary Orphans/The Tavern Lantern)
      • An Excerpt from PAX AMERICANA (The Weeklings)
      • An Excerpt from Pax Americana (The Nervous Breakdown)
  • Interviews
    • Podcasts
      • Kurt Baumeister and Jonathan Evison on Nate Ragolia’s Podcast A Vague Idea, Discussing Football and Writing, April 6, 2021
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by John Madera for his podcast Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 17, Life During the Contagion, July 3, 2020
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Ben Tanzer on This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode 221 on April 20, 2020
    • Print Interviews
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Matt Norman for J.M.W.W.
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Tobias Carroll for Vol. 1 Brooklyn
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Tobias Carroll for Vol. 1 Brooklyn
      • Largehearted Boy Book Notes – Kurt Baumeister “Pax Americana”
      • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Bestselling Author Christine Sneed
      • Kurt Baumeister: The TNB Self-Interview
      • Caroline Leavitt Interviews Kurt Baumeister + Bonus Excerpt
  • TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
    • THE BOOK OF LOKI, a novel excerpt (published initially by GUERNICA)
  • Columns and Essays
    • Under the Influence #14, Peace
    • Under the Influence #13
    • Under the Influence #12
    • Under the Influence #11
    • Under the Influence #10, Taste
    • Under the Influence #9, Meditations
    • Under the Influence #8, Perspective
    • Under the Influence #7, Magic
    • Under the Influence #6, Negative Capability
    • Under the Influence #5, The Literary Psyche
    • Under the Influence #4, Nabokov’s Hyperbole
    • Under the Influence #3, Rediscovery
    • Under the Influence #2, Son of Kid of Baby
    • Under the Influence #1, The Origins Issue
    • Entropy Magazine’s “Under the Influence”: Call for Submissions
    • Beyond Good and Evil
    • LOOKING BACK AT THE ABYSS: REFLECTIONS ON BINGE-WATCHING “HANNIBAL”
    • Deaths of Distant Friends (or, John Updike F#cking Rocks)
    • Found in Translation (50 Things You Don’t Mean and What You Really Do)
    • U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
    • Donald Trump’s America
    • THE HEROES WE NEED
    • POLITICAL TIME MACHINE
    • Beware the Ides of Trump
    • SCREAM, DREAM, NIGHTMARE
    • THE BITTER AND THE SWEET: MY UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10
    • THE WORST PEOPLE IN AMERICA: WAYNE LAPIERRE
    • SEVEN THINGS WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK: SEMI-CROWD-SOURCED, SUMMER BLOCKBSTER, TRIPLE CROWN, JAM-PACKED-WITH-CARING-AND-UNCARING EDITION
    • “MAD MEN” EULOGIES: DON DRAPER
    • THE SATURDAY RUMPUS ESSAY: FEMALE PRESIDENT? TV SAYS, “DEFINITELY, MAYBE.”
    • LET’S FOLLOW THIS MICKEY MOUSE JURISPRUDENCE TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION AND REPLACE THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WITH NINE CARTOON CHARACTERS
    • DAWN OF IRONY ON THE PLANET OF THE APES
    • RICK PERRY, BIZARRO SUPERMAN?
    • DEAR FRANK UNDERWOOD, OR, THERE’S A HOMICIDAL POLITICIAN LIVING IN MY BASEMENT
    • TRUE DETECTIVE: JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE AMERICAN NIGHT
    • WHY THE LEFT SHOULD STOP LISTENING TO RALPH NADER
    • A SIMPLE REALITY IN THE U.S. TAX CODE THAT AFFECTS US ALL
  • Book Reviews
    • Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown Reviewed by Kurt Baumeister
    • TNB Book Review: Teddy Wayne’s Apartment Reviewed by Kurt Baumeister
    • The Brooklyn Rail: And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks
    • The Brooklyn Rail: No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk
    • The Brooklyn Rail: Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten
    • TNB Book Review: Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs, reviewd by Kurt Baumeister
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 8
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 7
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 6
    • TNB Book Review: The Sarah Book, by Scott McClanahan
    • TNB Book Review: Joseph by Dena Rash Guzman
    • TNB Book Review: Robert Burke Warren’s Perfectly Broken
    • Success and Its Trappings, a review of Matt Bell’s latest
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 5
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 4
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 3
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 2
    • The Nervous Breakdown’s Review Microbrew, Volume 1
    • THE NOVEL LIVES: A REVIEW OF THE SILENT END BY SAMUEL SATTIN
    • TNB Book Review: The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
    • TNB Book Review: The Guild of St. Cooper, by Shya Scanlon
    • Honesty and All its Oddities: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
    • The Sounds of Madness: The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfeld
    • REVIEW: The Sea-God’s Herb by John Domini
    • REVIEW: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Short Fiction
    • THE ARENA OF LOVE, a short story
    • SUPERMAN’S LAST FLIGHT
  • Poetry
    • Fallen Flowers
    • 3 Poems: Mecca, Tsarist Pop Star, and God and Judy Garland
    • if there were
    • Mansion
    • Dead Heart

The Weeklings

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  • Kurt Baumeister and Jonathan Evison on Nate Ragolia’s Podcast A Vague Idea, Discussing Football and Writing, April 6, 2021
  • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by John Madera for his podcast Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 17, Life During the Contagion, July 3, 2020
  • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Ben Tanzer on This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode 221 on April 20, 2020
  • Kurt Baumeister Interviewed by Tobias Carroll for Vol. 1 Brooklyn
  • Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown Reviewed by Kurt Baumeister

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