Julie Doucet Drawn & Quarterly ($14.95) by Gary Sullivan On The Comics Journal's ill-fated online bulletin board, a thread started up concerning women cartoonists and influence.

Armand Schwerner National Poetry Foundation ($32.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback) by Eric Lorberer Armand Schwerner's death in early 1999 came too soon, sadly, for the Belgian-born

Nicole Blackman Incommunicado Press ($13) by Bruna Darini Deemed "an alt-rock diva" by the Village Voice, Nicole Blackman is as much a musician as spoken word

Steve Erickson Bard/Avon Books ($23) by Aidan Baker Steve Erickson's characters inhabit a fragile world, an alternate reality that might as well be our own,

Isabel Allende HarperCollins ($26) by Jay Miskowiec Before a recent reading from her novel Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende remarked that the act of writing had

Edited by Russell Ferguson University of California Press ($39.95) by Chris Fischbach In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art is the book which

Mark Caldwell Picador USA ($18) by Christopher Tinney In his introduction to A Short History of Rudeness, the author asks us, "What are manners, anyway?" It seems

Leila J. Rupp University of Chicago Press ($22) by Brad Jacobsen A storyteller exists inside everyone. Stories are shared on a daily basis without much

Interview by Robert Couteau Robert Couteau: You've just returned from Europe, where you gave a series of readings in Germany and attended the Paris premiere of the

Interview by Jason Weiss Known above all as a film and theater director, Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile, 1930) began by working in the circus and with