Deenah Vollmer

Poem and interview with Deenah Vollmer.

Playing in a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band with Macaulay Culkin taught me more about the nature of celebrity—and pizza—than I'd bargained for.

Tracing Antifolk’s aesthetics and community, from the Lower East Side to Berlin.

In this special episode of Berlin Stories, hosts Deenah Vollmer and Cricket Arrison take a closer look at the Antifolk movement, a music scene that spread to Germany from New York.

Deenah Vollmer interviews Yoko Ono.

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Graceland turns twenty-five today, which is how old my mother was when the album came out, and how old I am now. My mother never listened to it, nor did my father, and I found it on my own for a dollar on vinyl at a record store in Santa Cruz.

This essay, from James Franco and his collaborator Deenah Vollmer, addresses the psychological economy of the star whose traditional preparations as an actor must be taken to extremes—in hopes of justifying the actor’s personal autonomy as part of the mixed, collaborative art of an expensive Hollywood movie.

CAN A CARDBOARD BOX GENERATE EMPATHY BETWEEN TWO STRANGERS? CAN IT HELP THEM TO FALL IN LOVE?

Here’s word from Deenah Vollmer, our woman at Sundance, who brings some backstory to one festival event.

The Frankfurt Book Fair, which took place in Germany last week, feels like an airport (gift shops, people movers, high ceilings, ample bathrooms, the anxiety of missing something), except you can’t go anywhere.

On cleaning up New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

“I know I have a face that can look quite forlorn sometimes,” he says, “but I’m really not a moody guy.”

Deenah Vollmer interviews Kyle MacLachlan.