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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Biographer as a Fool in Love

Some biographies are cold and lifeless; others passionate and obsessed, motivated by the writer's infatuation with the subject. They may not be as objective, but at least they're warmblooded.

Out of Oblivion: Talking With Emily Kai Bock

With a new short doc about hip hop, Spit Gold Under an Empire, and a Prism Prize nod for her video for Grimes' "Oblivion," Emily Kai Bock talks to Hazlitt about the shortcomings of film school, working with Coca-Cola, and the benefits of being an outsider.

Geneviève Castrée: The Impossibility of Autobiography

Hazlitt talks with the Quebecois comics artist about her new book Susceptible, the influence of Montreal's underground comics scene, and the difficult of art of diaristic writing.

What Would Virgil Do? (Or Martha Stewart, or Tower of Power?)

The ancient Romans consulted Virgil for big decisions, by opening The Aeneid at random and interpreting the passage. If it worked for the Romans, it can work for a columnist eating sandwiches at her sister's apartment.