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JUL-AUG 2008

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Photography: A World to Warhol

by Ellen Pearlman

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In 1982, before it was hip, fashionable, or barely possible, Andy Warhol tripped off to China with young photographer Christopher Makos, who documented the fabulous but anonymous Andy in Mao land.

Poetry Roundup

by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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Gaius Valerius Catullus…we laud the caustic wit and cloacal satirist for his love, sorrow and outsized audacity.

Poetry: Rounding Out the Edges

by Jim Feast

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In A Man of Letters in the Modern Age, Allen Tate makes the compelling argument that great poetry emerges at the edge of a belief system or way of living that has fallen short.

Poetry: Before- And After-Image

by Benjamin Tripp

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Kenneth Patchen’s reputation as a proto-beatnik poet, visual artist, activist, jazz performer and all around bohemian emanates an aura of saintliness.

Fiction: Illness as Metallurgy

by Joseph Salvatore

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There’s chaos in Pisstown tonight.

Fiction: Two Halves of a Whole

by Hana Malia

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Messing’s debut novel unfolds in two rotating narratives of one woman’s life, one of her lonesome present and the other of her lucidly recalled childhood.

Fiction: Who, You?

by Jessica Stults

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The flap of your book identifies you as a “post-modern legend,” which I’m not sure how to take, so it is with some apprehension that I flip to the beginning of You.

Nonfiction: Legends from the Levant

by Mia Eaton

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Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born journalist who immigrated to France in 1975 to escape his country’s civil war. A world-renowned novelist, essayist, historian, journalist, and librettist, Maalouf bridges East and West through his exploratory writing about Arab culture.

Nonfiction: Beauty, Old Faithful

by Marcela Silva

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With his most recent theoretical construction, Eyes Upside Down, P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, reveals an intricate matrix of aesthetic attributes with Ralph Waldo Emerson as its core source.

Nonfiction: The Cold Hard Facts of Home

by Meghan Roe

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The scene opens with a flourish of horns, strings, and cymbals, on a panoramic strip of sun-dappled Tennessee forestland.

Nonfiction: How a Stroke Became Genius

by Bob Blaisdell

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Engel is a Canadian detective novelist, and one morning in the summer of 2001, as he tries to look at the newspaper, he can't recognize the letters.

Prose Roundup

by Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana Laine

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Full of innovative stylistic flourishes and classic noir motifs, Abraham Rodriguez’s new crime novel South by South Bronx is infused with the right balance of new and old.

 

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