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Interviews   Ben Berlow had the final, poignant interview with the irrepressible and unforgettable artist Dan Asher, who passed away of Leukemia in April, 2010.   Master manipulator of spatial movement Elizabeth Streb and novelist A.M Homes talk about overcoming gravity.   Sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins reflects on Levinas, contingency and the human body with Stuart Horodner.   Sebastiaan Bremer and Shoshana Dentz delve into his information packed network photographs, evocative of brainstorming, dreaming, and automatic doodling.   Alain Mabanckou and fellow author Binyavanga Wainaina discuss each others work and the complications of colonial language in post-colonial African literature.   Jennifer Egan, in conversation with Heidi Julavits, discussed Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, has a polyphonic structure that shows how the characters are central to themselves and peripheral to others.   Grizzly Bear's Edward Droste speaks to Rick Moody, among other things, about his initial f