Vol. 7, No.2, Summer 2002 (#26)

Ann Lauterbach, Sigrid Undset, Lemony Snicket, Giacomo Casanova, Jan Potocki, Marshall McLuhan, and more...purchase now

INTERVIEWS

Ann Lauterbach | by Tim Peterson

FEATURES

Sigrid Undset: The Kristin Lavransadatter trilogy | by Laura Sims
Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events and Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography | by Persimmon Wrench and Simon P. Cherwin
A Lovely Chap: books by and about Giacomo Casanova | by Tosh Berman
Casanova's Return to Venice by Arthur Schnitzler
Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture by Stefan Zweig
Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu
The Story of My Life by Giacamo Casanova
Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa | by David Wiley
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village | by Jeremy Smith

PLUS:

The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan
Trial & Error | Letters from Prison by Milan Simecka and Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos | by Peter Ritter
The Writing Self | "Purposes" | by Richard Kostelanetz
The Last Laugh | humor by Louis Phillips

REVIEWS

NON-FICTION

Into Woods | Bill Roorbach | by Felicia Parsons
City: An Essay | Brian Lennon | by Daniel Nester
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction John Steinbeck | by Ryder W. Miller
The Dream of the Audience & Dictée | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | by Kim Fortier
Janet Cardiff | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev | by Stephen Mohring
I Am Not This Body | Barbara Ess | by Eric Lorberer
The Russian Avant-Garde Book | Margit Rowell & Deborah Wye | by Brent Cunningham
The Secret Life of Puppets | Victoria Nelson | by Chris Fischbach
Reading the Vampire Slayer | Roz Kaveney, ed. | by Steven Moore
Fighting the Forces  | Rhonda V. Wilcox & David Lavery, eds. | by Steven Moore
Telling It Slant  | Mark Wallace & Steven Marks, eds. | by Chris McCreary
Seeing Shelley Plain | Robert A. Wilson | by Eric Lorberer
Tonight at Noon | Sue Graham Mingus | by Christopher Luna
Enough About You | David Shields | by Thomas Haley
The Black Veil | Rick Moody | by Jason Picone
Dying in America | Richard Lichtman | by Carrie Mercer

FICTION

Under the Frangipani | Mia Couto | by Kevin Carollo
Living Parallel | Alexandr Kliment | by Tricia Cornell
Arc: Cleavage of Ghosts | Noam Mor | by Rod Smith
Flesh and Bone | Cydney Chadwick | by Jennifer Coleman
Little Casino | Gilbert Sorentino | by Doug Nufer
Life in the Damn Tropics | David Unger | by Jay Miskowiec
Luisa and the Silence | Claudio Piersanti | by Sarah Fox
Dolce Agonia Nancy Huston | by Amy Havel
The Impossible Birds | Patrick O'Leary | by Alan DeNiro
Six Kinds of Sky | Luis Alberto Urrea | by Dawn Michelle Baude
Italian Stories | Joseph Papaleo | by Dennis Barone
The Mask Maker | Diane Glancy | by Amy Havel
He Kills Coppers | Jake Arnott | by Kris Lawson
The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) | Robert Coover | by Dobby Gibson
The Anarchist | Daniel A. Coleman | by Carrie Mercer
It Doesn't Have To Be Me | Carole Rosenthal | by Lynnell Edwards

POETRY

Psychological Corporations | Garrett Kalleberg | by Jeffrey Jullich
Telepathy | Devin Johnston | by Alan Gilbert
Without a Trace | Eli Goldblatt | by Kevin S. Fitzgerald
For the Century's End | John Haines | by Robert Zaller
The Roads Have Come To An End Now | Rolf Jacobsen | by Joel Weishaus
Moments Without Names | Morton Marcus | by John Bradley
Good Morning-Midnight  | Kim Rosenfield | by Arielle Greenberg
Vulgar Exhibitions  | Jerry McGuire | by Ronald Donn
Nietzsche's Horse  | Christopher Kennedy | by Mark Tursi
Rehearsal in Black  | Paul Hoover | by Fred Muratori
The Despaires | Cid Corman | by Darrin Daniel
The Balloonists | Eula Biss | by Thomas Wiloch

DRAMA

Cellophane  | Marc Wellman | by Justin Maxwell
Vera of Las Vegas  | Paul Muldoon | by Justin Maxwell

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Krazy & Ignatz | George Herriman | by Stephen Burt
To Afghanistan and Back | Ted Rall | by Eric Lorberer
Scatterbrain | Phil D. Amara & Scott Stuart Allie, eds. | by Kelly Everding
Pictures That Tick | Dave McKean | by Rudi Dornemann
Uzumaki | Junji Ito | by Natalie Polano

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