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July 10th, 2010

I wrote a new post for the literary website The Nervous Breakdown for the first time in over half a year. If you would like to read about me taking the bus to the library, please click HERE.

My Interview with Dustin Yellin

April 22nd, 2009

Here is a video interview I did with artist, Dustin Yellin, for ArtObserved.  His show ‘Dust in The Brain Attic’ opens tomorrow at Robert Miller Gallery, New York, and if you are in New York it is not to be missed!
(April 23, 2009, 6pm – 8pm, 524 West 26th Street, New York, NY)

Plate Show

September 1st, 2008

This weekend I was a guest on Shawn Honnick’s Plate Show, a radio show about “life, vanity plates, and the meanings behind them.” It happened super last minute so I didn’t have time to post it beforehand but click HERE to listen to a recording of the show.

I Release My Official Response to George Gurley’s New York Observer Article About Me from My Loftbed Headquarters

April 16th, 2008

Today’s issue of The New York Observer ran an article about me by George Gurley titled “Who’s That Girl? It’s Rebecca Schiffman!” Maybe I’ve been out of school too long because lately I’ve had the urge to write letters to Harper’s Magazine responding to various articles. Once I begin the effort, however, I quickly become discouraged because I know Harper’s usually publishes responses from people of some related scholarly authority, and unless I have some revelatory insight on the subject, which has not yet happened in these mere self-assigned challenges, I will not be saying anything new or worthwhile. But now an article exists on which I might be a leading authority! So here is my response.

George interviewed me over the last several weeks and I must first say that he did a great job of parsing the hours and hours of taped rantings to output this fairly accurate and vivid (graphic!) depiction of where I am in life.*

Illuminating some references:

Title: I am assuming George based the title “Who’s that Girl?…” on an article in Vice Magazine that he alludes to when he mentions he saw my bare ass on the internet, called “Who’s That Ass?” The April, (more…)

Writing

March 5th, 2008

I have written a new post on TNB about songwriting.
Please check it out here:

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rebecca_schiffman/2008/03/some-thoughts-o.html

December 2nd, 2007

If you enjoy reading please check out my newest entry on the creative non-fiction website The Nervous Breakdown.

September 22nd, 2007

I have been added as an official contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, a creative non-fiction blog founded by Brad Listi, author of Attention.Deficit.Disorder.My introductory entry has just gone up and should be at or near the top of the page. Please check out the site when you have a chance – there are over 70 contributors and you might find a few you especially like.

www.thenervousbreakdown.com

March 28th, 2006

My zine, The U.E.S. Journal is back in stock at St. Mark’s Bookshop!
31 Third Avenue (just around the corner on Stuyvesant Square which is a little street between St. Mark’s Place and 9th Street.)
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-260-7853

January 27th, 2006

My zine The U.E.S. Journal is now on the web- all the content is there from the printed version plus lots of new stuff. www.uesjournal.com