Greg Buium

My piece on jazz gui­tarist Pat Mar­ti­no was recent­ly cho­sen for this beau­ti­ful anthol­o­gy from McSweeney’s, Con­fi­dence, or the Appear­ance of Con­fi­dence: The Best of the Believ­er Music Inter­views. Con­trib­u­tors include Dave Eggers, Touré, Jon Cara­man­i­ca, Miran­da July, Ross Simoni­ni, Doug Rushkoff, Josh Kun, Car­rie Brown­stein, and Sean Michaels, among many others.

Believ­er Books col­lects thir­ty-five inter­views with some of today’s most influ­en­tial musi­cians and includes such con­ver­sa­tion­al trea­sures as Björk on e.e. cum­mings, Lucin­da Williams on writ­ing, Trey Anas­ta­sio on impro­vi­sa­tion games, M.I.A. on the pow­er of the inter­net, and Jack White on uphol­ster­ing a couch. The inter­views are con­duct­ed in the Believ­er magazine’s inti­mate, casu­al, long-form style, and while they focus on music — cre­at­ing it, play­ing it, tour­ing it, liv­ing with it — they nev­er hes­i­tate to explore the sub­jects’ oth­er pas­sions. This col­lec­tion is per­fect for fans, lovers of the inter­view for­mat, cul­tur­al afi­ciona­dos, and aspir­ing polymaths.