Volume 19, Number 4 Winter 2014 (#76)

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INTERVIEWS

Ned Beauman: “I know little or nothing about human beings” | interviewed by Jeffrey P. Beck
Monica McFawn: Carving Filigree | interviewed by Abigail Rose
Diane di Prima: Mythic Musings in San Francisco | interviewed by Jonah Raskin

FEATURES

The Fine Art of Blurbing | by Louis Phillips
Mnartists presents: Linda LeGarde Grover | by Connie Wanek
The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan

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NONFICTION REVIEWS:

Tata Dada | Marius Hentea | by Jay Besemer
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free | Héctor Tobar | by Jodie Noel Vinson
Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe | Chris Andrews | by Matt Pincus
The Narrow Gate: Writing, Art & Values | Robert Stewart | by Robert Day
It’s All A Kind of Magic: The Young Ken Kesey | Rick Dodgson | by Scott F. Parker
Seeking the Cave | James P. Lenfestey | by Justin Wadland
Francis Jammes: On the Life & Work of a Modern Master edited by Kathryn Nuernberger & Bruce Whiteman | by James Naiden
Congo: The Epic History of a People | David Van Reybrouck | by Douglas Messerli
Unlearning with Hannah Arendt | Marie Luise Knott | by W. C. Bamberger

POETRY REVIEWS:

Against Conceptual Poetry | Ron Silliman | by James Yeary
Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments | Elise Cowen | by Laura Winton
Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star | Gracie Leavitt | by Elizabeth Robinson
This Last Time Will Be The First | Jeff Alessandrelli | by Ansley Clark
Culling: New and Selected Nature Poems | George Held | by Daniela Gioseffi
Buoyancies: A Ballast Master’s Log | Joseph A. Amato | by Joshua Preston
Dido in Winter | Anne Shaw | by Gretchen Marquette
The Poetry Deal | Diane di Prima | by Patrick James Dunagan

FICTION REVIEWS:

Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness | Heather Fowler | by Sarah Blackman
Journey by Moonlight | Antal Szerb | by Steve Danzis
Talking to Ourselves | Andrés Neuman | by Lori A. Feathers
Across My Big Brass Bed: An Intellectual Autobiography in Twenty-Four Hours | Gary Amdahl | by Paul Charles Griffin
Air Raid | Alexander Kluge | by M. Kasper
10:04 | Ben Lerner | by MH Rowe
Kinder Than Solitude | Yiyun Li | by Alta Ifland
Queens Never Make Bargains | Nancy Means Wright | by Carol Smallwood
The Martian | Andy Weir | by Ryder W. Miller
The Cost of Lunch, Etc. | Marge Piercy | by George Longenecker
Cataract City | Craig Davidson | by Thomas Paul Kalb
Shirley | Susan Scarf Merrell | by Rob Kirby
Lay It On My Heart | Angela Pneuman | by Angele Anderfuren

COMICS/ART REVIEWS

Henry Darger | Klaus Beidenbach | by Eliza Murphy
Sugar Skull | Charles Burns | by Steve Matuszak

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