Vol. 12, No.4, Winter 2007 (#48)

Rick Geary, Alexander Theroux, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Erickson and much more... purchase now

INTERVIEWS

The Real World of Rick Geary | interview by Eric Lorberer

FEATURES

Lost and Found: the life and work of Henri Alain-Fournier | by Greg Bachar
Robert Heinlein Sacked God | by Ryder W. Miller

PLUS:

The New Life: a comic by Gary Sullivan
Chapbook Corner by Noah Eli Gordon

REVIEWS

FICTION

The Shadow Catcher    |  Marianne Wiggins   |   by Pamela Thompson
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England    |  Brock Clarke   |    by Jay Gabler
Laura Warholic    |  Alexander Theroux   |   by Scott Bryan Wilson
The Entire Predicament   |   Lucy Corin   |   by Micaela Morrissette
The Almost Moon    |  Alice Sebold   |   by Elaine Margolin
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox    |  Maggie O’Farrell   |   by Diana Green
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea   |   Stephen Marche   |   by Rod Smith
Going Together   |   Arnold Grossman   |   by Brooke Hilzim
Kissssss    |   Steve Katz   |   by Levi Teal
All Things Are Labor    | Katherine Arnoldi   |   by Christopher Gaumer
The Rowing Lesson   |   Anne Landsman   |   by Julia Jenson
Novels in Three Lines    |   Félix Fénéon   |   by Thomas Wiloch
The Meat and Spirit Plan   |   Selah Saterstrom   |   by Elizabeth Robinson
The Sorrow and the Fast of It   |   Nathalie Stephens   |   by Kate Zambreno
Nada   |   Carmen Laforet   |   by Douglas Messerli
Zeroville   |   Steve Erickson    |  by Nick Bredie
Bad Monkeys   |   Matt Ruff   |   by Ryan Rase McCray
Quinnehtukqut    |  Joshua Harmon   |   by Jeff Hansen
Hedyphagtica   |   Austryn Wainhouse   |   by Matthew Duffus
The Understory   |   Pamela Erens   |   by Clifford Garstang
Like You’d Understand, Anyway    |  Jim Shepard   |    by John Isaac Lingan
Spaceman Blues    |  Brian Francis Slattery   |   by Rhett duPont

NONFICTION

Existentialism is a Humanism    |  Jean-Paul Sartre   |   by Nicholas Hengen
What’s the Use of Truth?   |   Richard Rorty and Pascal   |   by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Dreamworlds of Alabama    |  Allen Shelton   |   by Doreen Johnson
China Road   |   Rob Gifford   |   by Bob Hussey
Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean   |   Michael Erard   |   by Molly Brookfield
The Embattled Lyric   |   Nathaniel Tarn   |   by Lucas Klein
An Elemental Thing   |   Eliot Weinberger   |   by Lucas Klein
The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates    |  Greg Johnson, ed.   |   by Spencer Dew
Poetry and Pedagogy    |  Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr   |   by Adam Deutsch
Noise/Music: a history   |   Paul Hegarty   |   by Rod Smith
Constituent Imagination    |  Stevphen Shukaltis and David Graeber, eds.   |   by Jim Feast
Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront Since 1941    |  Philip Metres   |   by Daniela Gioseffi
Flotsam: a life in debris   |   Denis Horgan   |    by Johanna Buch
and in Big Books Roundup by Eric Lorberer:
The Book as Art   |   Krystyna Wasserman, ed.
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road    |  Isaac Gewirtz
Edward Hopper    |   Carol Troyen, Judith A. Barter, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, & Ellen E. Roberts
Joel-Peter Witkin    |  Eugenia Parry
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence    |   Doug Harvey

POETRY/AUDIO

The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams   |   Tennessee Williams   |   by Christopher Luna
Bad Bad    |  Chelsey Minnis |    by Cindra Halm
A Semblance: selected and new poems 1975-2007    |  Laura Moriarty   |   by Kevin Carollo
Fragment of the Head of a Queen   |   Cate Marvin   |   by Nate Pritts
Music for Landing Planes By   |   Eireann Lorsung   |   by Frank Giampietro
Surreal South   |   Laura Benedict and Pinckney Benedict, eds.   |   by Mary Akers
Vertigo   |   Martha Ronk   |   by Elizabeth Robinson
The Marvelous Bones of Time    |  Brenda Coultas   |   by Elizabeth Robinson
I, Afterlife   |   Kristin Prevallet   |   by Anne Heide
Routes, Not Roots    |  Piere Joris   |   by Christine Hume
La Garbure Transcontinentale / The Bi-Continental Chowder   |   Nicole Peyrafitte   |   by Christine Hume

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Nightmare Factory    |  Thomas Ligotti   |    by William Alexander
The Nightly News   |   Jonathan Hickman   |    by Rudi Dornemann
Shortcomings   |   Adrian Tomine    |   by Spencer Dew
and in Big Books Roundup by Eric Lorberer:
The Absolute Sandman Volume Two   |   Neil Gaiman
Life, In Pictures    |  Will Eisner
The Art of Bone   |   Jeff Smith

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