Spring 2007 Contributors
Derik Badman blogs at MadInkBeard and writes reviews for various publications.
Dave Beckerman attended NYU Graduate Film School, worked in the film business as a screenwriter for ten years, and eventually returned to still photography, which he had begun as a child in the Bronx. His work has recently appeared in the Black and White Spider Awards Book: The World’s Greatest Black and White Photographers, 2007. Visit his website here.
Scott Esposito’s writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Chattahoochee Review, Boldtype, and the Rain Taxi Review of Books, among others. He blogs at Conversational Reading.
Dan Green’s criticism has been published in AGNI, Context, and The Antioch Review. He blogs at The Reading Experience.
John Allan Harrison lives and reads in Maine.
Contributing editor Barrett Hathcock’s work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the MacGuffin Reader, and the Birmingham Weekly. Read his essay “Howdy Neighbor” from issue 6 here.
Megan Keane is a yoga instructor living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Edie Meidav is the author of The Far Field, named one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times. Her most recent novel, Crawl Space, was awarded Bard College’s Bard Fiction Prize in 2005.
The holder of a master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia, Brien Michael lives in Berkeley, CA.
Dave Munger’s work has appeared in Seed magazine. He blogs at Cognitive Daily.
Ken Stout has shown his paintings internationally, including exhibits at the Nelson-Atkins Museum and the Butler Museum, with solo shows at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Goldstrom Gallery in New York City, and the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. He has received numerous awards, including the NEA/Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship in Painting, is represented by the McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, and has a website.
Matthew Tiffany recently earned a masters degree in counseling and writes reviews for various publications. Visit his literature blog here.
Contributing editor Elizabeth Wadell’s work can be read previous issues, including an essay on Frank Bidart a review of the book Hungry Planet.
Scott Bryan Wilson’s work has appeared in the Rain Taxi Review of Books and many other journals. He lives in New York City.
Spring 2007
Features
No Funny Business: How Orhan Pamuk’s Postmodern Fictions Fall Short
All successful postmodern literature contains a comic element, argues Dan Green. Orhan Pamuk just isn’t funny.Thrice Told Tales: How Stories Become Reality in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Oral storytelling is an essential part of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s beliefs about art and politics. Scott Esposito explains how storytelling works on three levels in Thiong’o’s newest novel, Wizard of the Crow.Déjà Vu: On Rereading Catch-22
The language, logic, and structure of Catch-22 are like a Mobius strip, argues Elizabeth Wadell. So is rereading.Excerpt: Cautionary Tales
New work from Edie Meidav and Ken Stout, from their forthcoming book, Cautionary Tales.reviews
Amulet
The Children’s Hospital
The Shape of Things to Come
Poor People
The Mystery of the Sardine
Of Song and Water
Reading Like A Writer
Golden Country
All Aunt Hagar’s Children
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
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