Vol. 14 No. 1, Spring 2009 (#53)
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Interviews
Lydia Davis
interviewed by Leonard Schwartz
Tao Lin
interviewed by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Features
Cover artwork by Fran Herndon
From the Backlist:
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
reviewed by Sharon Mesmer
Susan Sontag: An Appreciation
by Yahia Lababidi
Plus:
The New Life by Gary Sullivan
The Chapbook Corner by Noah Eli Gordon
Reviews
FICTION
A Death in the Family James Agee reviewed by Douglas Messerli
Night Work Thomas Glavinic reviewed by Jeff Bursey
Apologize, Apologize! Elizabeth Kelly reviewed by Andi Diehn
Things That Pass for Love Allison Amend reviewed by Amy Halloran
Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire David Mura reviewed by Melissa Slachetka
Chupacabra and the Roswell UFO Rudolfo Anaya
Creepers Joanne Dahme reviewed by William Alexander
A Violent Life Pier Paolo Pasolini reviewed by Scott Bryan Wilson
The Well-Built City Trilogy Jeffrey Ford reviewed by Kelly Everding
Paper Cities Ekaterina Sedia, ed. reviewed by Micaela Morrisette
Cyberabad Days Ian McDonald reviewed by Kris Lawson
The Manual of Detection Jedediah Berry reviewed by Nick Bredie
The Widening Carol Moldaw reviewed by Alyssa Pelish
Laundry Suzane Adam reviewed by Kristin Thiel
I Go To Some Hollow Amina Cain reviewed by Miranda Mellis
All About Lulu Jonathan Evison reviewed by Charles Dodd White
NONFICTION
Script & Scribble Kitty Burns Florey reviewed by Abby Travis
The Poem’s Heartbeat Alfred Corn reviewed by John Herbert Cunningham
Electronic Literature N. Katherine Hayles reviewed by Michael Filas
Jewishness and the Human Dimension Jonathan Boyarin reviewed by W. C. Bamberger
We, the Anarchists! Stuart Christie reviewed by Niels Strandskov
Now the Drum of War Robert Roper reviewed by Spencer Dew
If I Am Not for Myself Mike Marqusee reviewed by Burke Bindbeutel
Return to the Middle Kingdom Yuan-tsung Chen reviewed by Lucas Klein
The Cave of the Yellow Dog Byambasuren Davaa and Lisa Reisch reviewed by Lisa Fink
Sex and War Dr. Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden reviewed by Jim Kozubek
Fugitive Days Bill Ayers reviewed by Bob Sommer
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara reviewed by Ryder W. Miller
The Same Man David Lebedoff reviewed by Jesse Freedman
The Sorcerer’s Tale Alec Ryrie reviewed by Kris Lawson
POETRY
Hearth Simon Pettet reviewed by Mark Terrill
Love on the Streets Sharon Doubiago reviewed by Charles Potts
Basho: The Complete Haiku Matsuo Basho reviewed by Robert Milo Baldwin
Songbook Umberto Saba reviewed by John Bradley
The Cosmopolitan Donna Stonecipher reviewed by Alyssa Pelish
All-American Poem Matthew Dickman reviewed by Sean Patrick Hill
Night Work C. E. Perry reviewed by Carrie Meadows
Secret of Breath Isabelle Baladine Howald reviewed by John Jacob
Parish Krewes Micah Ballard reviewed by Garrett Caples
Refrains/Unworkings Paul Foster Johnson reviewed by Martine Bellen
Oneiromance Kathleen Rooney reviewed by C. M. McLean
The Sound Mirror Andrew Joron reviewed by Joseph Bradshaw
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Tamara Drewe Posy Simmonds reviewed by David Kennedy-Logan
The Lagoon Lilli Carré reviewed by John Pistelli
VACUM Attachment
Failure Chris Larson reviewed by Sean Smuda
Cityscapes & Beruit 1991 (2003) Gabriele Basilico reviewed by Deborah Karasov
The Last Photographic Heroes Gilles Mora reviewed by Callie Clark-Wiren
Unseen Mendieta Olga Viso reviewed by Mason Riddle
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