Author

Alex Stein

Alex Stein is an American essayist, aphorist and illustrator. His books include Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) - a genre-blurring collection of interviews, interview fictions and essays on the art of the interview - and Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms (Wings Press, 2007). He lives in Boulder and works at the University of Colorado.

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The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi

Alex Stein, Yahia Lababidi

In a sequence of lyric conversations, aphorists Alex Stein and Yahia Lababidi summon the tortured, ecstatic spirits of Kafka, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Rilke and Kierkegaard. Part biography, part criticism, part incantation, it reads like a songline through the modern soul.