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Sufjan has a master’s degree in creative writing from the New School for Social Research. Here are a few of his short stories, essays, interviews and reviews.

Short Stories:

• Super Teenage Hooper Heroes (2009)
• Christmas Mysteries Of The Chicken McNuggets… (2006)
• Santa Magic Hands [booklet] (2006)
• Christmas Tube Socks [booklet] (2006)
• Untitled (October 31, 2005)
• Michigan essay [vinyl version] (2003)
• Michigan stories (2003)
• My Mother, King Tut (2003)
• We Are Shielded by the Holy Ghost (2002)
• All The Nonsense of Suffering (2001)
• An Oboist With So-So Vibrato (2001)
• Pain & Promise Weekly *

Essays and Lists:

• Jimmy Scott: A Voice From Another World (2010)
• What’s In A Name? (2009)
• The Welcome Wagon Amateur Hour Ethno-Musicology 101 (2009)
• The Show Business Of Church Basements & Home Studios [booklet] (2008)
• The Hula Hoop vs. The BQE (2007)
• How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner And Overcame The Tribulations Of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar At A Time (introduction to The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007)
• The Brooklynites (2007)
• Friend Rock (2007)
• The Horror In All Of Us (2006)
• Topic Magazine cover story (2006)
• Michigan Outtakes (2003)

Interviews:

• Shannon Stephens (2009)
• Shara Worden (2007)
• Rafter Roberts (2007)
• Shara Worden (2006)
• Shannon Stephens (2000)

Reviews:

• Cryptacize – Dig That Treasure, album review (2008)
• Free Man In Paris, song review (2007)
• Shapes & Sizes, live review (2007)
• My Brightest Diamond, live review (2007)
• The Curtains, live review (2007)

* Magnet magazine article: “I remember one of the first things [Sufjan] did for me,” says Stephen I. Hemenway, an English professor at Hope. “He put together a newspaper called Pain & Promise Weekly, where he used photographs and poetry and advertisements to analyze all the works that we had studied that year. I’ve taught for 33 years and have a small office. These are the kind of papers that I save.”

If anyone is able to provide us with copies of Pain & Promise Weekly please email the news editor.