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Rain Taxi editor Eric Lorberer sat down with Anne Fadiman on a sunny May afternoon to talk about the 15th anniversary re-release of her National Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.

Our spring issue includes interviews with Thomas Frank and Paul Maliszewski, reviews of books by Andrea Camilleri, Kimiko Hahn, Melanie Rae Thon, Jack Gilbert, Derek Jarman, Aimé Césaire, Jenny Boully, and much more! PLUS: a column by Allan Kornblum, an essay on The Art Shanties, the latest installment of "The New Life," and still more!

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