The Believer Magazine
Conversations at a Wartime Café
Sean Labrador y Manzano is a single father, a poet of postcolonial eroticism, and independent scholar. He believes in poetic justice: that one day soon he can pay all his bills (child support, student loans, credit cards, etc) through writing. In the mean time he ambles from gig to gig to gig. The experience of underemployment compels him to contemplate at wartime cafés (as all cafés are wartime cafés during a time of war) the benefits and contradictions of military reenlistment.
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December 14, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 9: Interlocutor
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November 20, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 8: Hollywood Stimulus Package, or Why the Film Industry Benefits from the War
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November 13, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 7: FUBAR
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November 5, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 6: Speculative Fiction
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October 29, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 5: When I Am On the Road, I Will Sing a Silly Animal Abcederian Through the Revolution. SING. SING. SING! (After “Fly Like an Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band.)
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October 19, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 4: Elysium: Where Are We When the Wild Things Are?
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October 12, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 3: Hurray! The California State Legislature Votes: October is Filipino-American History Month
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October 2, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 2: The Virtual Father
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September 24, 2009Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 1: To Inbed or Embed?
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