Vol. 4, No.4, Winter 1999 (#16)

David Byrne, Bernadette Mayer, The Marquis de Sade, Robert Creeley, and more...purchase now

INTERVIEWS

David Byrne | interviewed by Eric Lorberer
Bernadette Mayer | interviewed by Bridget Shields

FEATURES

Marquis de Sade: Looking at the Libertine
Sade: A Biographical Essay | Laurence L. Bongie | by Rod Smith
Sade: The Invention of the Libertine Body | Marcel Hénaff | by David Eton
Robert Creeley: In Collaboration | Edges, En Famille, & In Company: Robert Creeley’s Collaborations | essay by Eric Lorberer

PLUS:

The Writer Reads: Rikki Ducornet on the Marquis de Sade
Widely Unavailable: Les Jeux Sont Faits (The Chips are Down) | Jean-Paul Sartre | reviewed by Christopher Tinney
The New Life: a comic | by Gary Sullivan
Critical Issues: humor | by Erik Belgum & Gary Sullivan

REVIEWS

NON-FICTION

Tupperware | Alison J. Clarke |  by S.P. Healey
Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words | Louis Armstrong |  by Jon Rodine
Illumination And Night Glare | Carson McCullers |  by Charisse Gendron
How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z | Ann Marlowe |  by C.K. Hubbuch
The Kid  | Dan Savage |  by Karen Munro
Shaking a Leg | Angela Carter |  by Aidan Baker
Reach for the Sun | Charles Bukowski |  by Mark Terrill
Lockdown America | Christian Parenti |  by David Matlin
The Voice in Cinema  | Michel Chion |  by Aaron Kunin
The Films of Stan Brakhage | R. Bruce Elder |  by Christopher Luna
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood  | Janisse Ray |  by Thomas Rain Crow
Northern Waters | Jan Zita Grover |  by Tim Taylor
Healing Our Worldview | John Hitchcock |  by Elizabth C. Stewart
Use My Name    Jim Jones   by Darrin Daniel
Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh   W. C. Bamberger   by Jon Rodine
Bookstore | Lynne Tillman |  by Aidan Baker
Sculpture in the Age of Doubt | Thomas McEvilley |  by Stephen Mohring
Kiki Smith | Carl Haenlein, ed. |  by Elizabeth Culbert
Museum Studies | Jerry N. Uelsmann |  by Kelly Everding
Becoming | Carol Mavor |  by Randall Heath
The Pianist | Wladyslaw Szpilman |  by Michael Leville
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) | Stacy Schiff |  by David Wiley

FICTION

Love & Italian Fever | Valerie Martin |  by Kelly Everding
Bogeywoman | Jaimy Gordon |  by Carolyn Kuebler
Lawnboy | Paul Lisicky |  by Thomas Fagan
Faults | Terri de la Peña |  by Mary Sarko
Pictures of a Dying Man | Agymah Kamau |  by Rudi Dornemann
Fencing the Sky | James Galvin |  by Eric Lorberer
Everybody Pays | Andrew Vachss |  by Kris Lawson
Twinship | Laurie Foos |  by Matt Dube
In the Slipstream | Ronald Sukenick, Curtis White, eds. |  by Jerome Klinkowitz
The Tales of Horror | Laura Mullen |  by Brian Evenson
53 Days | Georges Perec |  by Marc Lowenthal
A Music Behind the Wall & The Lament of the Linnet | Anne Maria Ortese |  by Carolyn Kuebler
The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories | Judith Slater |  by Kyla Jones
Leo@fergusrules.com | Arne Tangherlini |  by Peter Ritter
The Divinity Student | Michael Cisco |  by Rudi Dornemann
The Desire Notebooks | John High |  by Sarah Fox
How Aliens Think | Judith Grossman |  by Kyla Jones
House Fires | Nancy Reisman |  by Carolyn Kuebler
Outcast | José Latour |  by Peter Ritter

POETRY

Integrity & Dramatic Life | Anselm Berrigan |  by Christopher Fischbach
Disarming Matter | Edmund Berrigan |  by Christopher Fischbach
The Flashboat | Jane Cooper |  by Sarah Fox
Impure | ony Barnstone |  by Josie Rawson
Runes | Robert Kelly |  by Dan Featherston
Other | Richard Caddel, Peter Quartermain, eds. |  by Anna Reckin
Sorrow | Claribel Alegría |  by John Bradley
Ordinary Words | Ruth Stone |  by Carlen Arnett
How Many More of Them Are You? | Lisa Lubasch |  by Jeffrey Jullich
Surge | Matthew Cooperman |  by Fred Schmalz
Trying to Catch the Horses  | Dan Gerber |  by Sarah Fox
The Goat  | Mervyn Taylor |  by Leola Abraham
Zombie Jet | Connie Deanovich |  by Brian Beatty
Zero Gravity | Eric Gamalinda |  by Melanie Figg

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Opus | Barry Windsor-Smith |  by John Eisler
Peanuts | Charles M. Schulz |  by Eric Lorberer
Escapo | Paul Pope |  by Charles Rait
The Four Immigrants | Manga Yoshitaka Kiyama |  by Gary Sullivan
Sandman: The Dream Hunters | Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano |  by Kelly Everding

AUDIO

All Things Censored  | Mumia Abu-Jamal |  by Josie Rawson

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