Issue Twenty

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Memories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  Essay by James Edward Reid
• “The Duke of Self Regard”: Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon
  Review by Richard Wirick
• The Poetry Deal by Diane di Prima
  Review by Kurt Lipshutz
• “Kyger’s Poetics of Interconnectedness” On Time: Poems 2005-2014 by Joanne Kyger
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• “Bright & Burning: C.K. Williams (1936-2015)”
  Essay by Richard Wirick
• “The Illusive Effect of the Nobel Prize: The Unknown Heroes of Turkish Literature”
  Essay by Cansu Soyupak
• “Modernist, Downhill Racer”: Litterchoor Is My Beat: A Life of James Laughlin by Ian S. MacNiven
  Review by Richard Wirick
• The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
  Review by Carol Ann Sokoloff
• “Oui, Paris Est Une Fete: Paris After the Attacks”
  Essay by Anna Aublet

Departments

• Border Crossings: “Letter from Morocco”
  Essay by Joseph Blake
• Poetry: “A Café on Main Street”
  Poem by Shannon Rayne
• Gallery Shows: “We Are Continually Exposed to the Flashbulb of Death:
  The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” review by Trevor Carolan
• Music Books: “Pop Music Royalty: Four Biographies”: Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton; I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons;
  Autobiography by Morrissey; Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt
  Worthy of Note: Live Souls by Serge Alternes & Alec Wainman; The Flour Peddler by
  Chris & Josh Hergesheimer; That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher; No Regrets
  by Larry Gambone page

Reviews

• Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “A Brief, Shining, Spontaneous Cultural Centrifugal Force!”: The Literary Storefront:
  The Glory Years by Trevor Carolan, review by Chelsea Pastorchik
• Rose’s Run by Dawn Dumont
  Review by Chuck Barker
• “Trauma Stories”: Scattershot: Collected Fictions by Amy L. Eggert
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Memoir in Eight Chakras”: Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras
  by Leza Lowitz, review by Eugene Tarshis
• Captive by Claudine Dumont
  Review by Peter McCambridge
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded by David Day
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Hetherington’s Permanent Impermanence”: The Archive Carpet by Michael Hetherington
  Review by Paul Falardeau
• Back Off, Assassin! by Jim Smith
  Review by Richard Stevenson
• Anita’s Revolution by Shirley Langer
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Korea’s Rainhat Poet”: Selected Poems of Kim Sakkat
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• “The Blessings and Challenges of Special Needs”: Snaphot of a Soulplace: In the
  Land of Special Needs by Kari Burk, review by Rose Morrison
• Those Godawful Streets of Man by Stephen Bett
  Review by Richard Stevenson
• “Remembering the Beats in Bombay with Poet Ail Jussawalla”
  Interview by Trevor Carolan
• “A Clump of Lavender”
  Review by Linda Rogers
• A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
  Review by Richard Wirick
• Kabuki Boy by Perle Besserman
  Review by Apis Teicher
• The Big Thirst by Jim Christy
  Review by Ryan Pastorchik
• Of a Feather by Michael Daley
  Review by Jim Bodeen