Issue Seven

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Gabrielle Roy: a Passion for Writing by André Vanasse
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• The Space Between a Bed and a Chair: Remembering Tennessee Williams
  By Len Gasparini
• Avanti! The Dharma Poetics of Diane di Prima: Revolutionary Letters
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Stop Making Sense: The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• “I’m a Liberal, You’re an Ideologue, He’s a False Prophet”: Joseph Howe and the Battle for Freedom of Speech, by John Ralston Saul
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner

Departments

• Sound & Fury: “Cartographers of the Heart”:
  Too Lives To Fly: Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
  Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Healing & Health: Making A Wild Salad, by Dr. Nicolas Kats

Reviews

• His Doubtful Excellency by Jan Drabek
  Reviewed by Josef Skvorecky
• The Poem of Life: a Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins
  Reviewed by Mike Doyle
• “Playing August Strindberg” Miss Julie by August Strindberg, adapted by David French; The Butcher’s Apron by Charles Tidler
  Reviewed by Rachel Wyatt
• Sunrise in Armageddon by Will Alexander
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• “Reclaiming the Mother Tongue”—Speaking in Tongues: PEN Canada Writers in Exile by Maggie Helwig, Ed.
  Reviewed by Sanja Garic-Komnenic
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag
  Reviewed by Michael Hsu
• “Joyful Wisdom from the Old Master”: Back On The Fire by Gary Snyder
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• My Mother is an Alien: Ten Takes on Life and Film by George Melnyk
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• Louisiana In Words by Joshua Clark
  Reviewed by Len Gasparini
• My Mother Agrees With The Dead by Susan Stenson
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the manga-anime revolution by Frederik L. Schodt
  Review by Hillel Wright
• Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries by Brad Warner
  Reviewed by James Eke
• A Memoir of Friendship: Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• I’m a Liberal, You’re an Idealogue, He’s a False Populist: Jospeh Howe and the Battle for Freedom of Speech by John Ralston Saul
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• “Depth Psychology East and West”: The Dalai Lama At MIT by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc, Eds.
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  Reviewed by Al MacLachlan
• Vali Myers: A Memoir
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• “Where Literature Meets Sport”: The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou
  Reviewed by Heather Kerr
• Radiance by Shaena Lambert
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
  Review by Linda Rogers
• The Bone Sharps by Tim Bowling
  Review by Mary Jo Anderson