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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.

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Issue 2 T I M O T H Y   M c S W E E N E Y ' S B L U E S / J A Z Z   O D Y S S E Y (Known also as "Pollyanna's Bootless Errand") - - - - The second issue is also white, and is 192 pages long. This issue is out of print. Issue No. 2 contains: The Republic of Marfa, by Sean Wilsey [16,000 words about Donald Judd's tiny Texas town. A true story] Chainsaw Apple, by Arthur Bradford [Fiction involving a chainsaw and an apple] Walking on the Rings of Saturn, by Paul Collins [About a 19th-century astronomy hoax] On Views and Viewing, by David Shields [Three short pieces] Speak Korean to Me, by Ana Marie Cox [This piece is hard to describe] Fat Women Floated in the Sky Like Balloons, by Amanda Davis [Fiction, involving men and women] Fire: The Next Sharp Stick? by John Hodgman [A play for three cavemen] The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian, by Brian Kennedy [Suspense, moccasins and· murder] The Snake and the Monkey, by Tim Rogers [A nice allegory. Also scary. And poignant] 1998: Year in Review, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal [Everything you could want] Hopper's Bathhouse, by Todd Pruzan [Highly interactive, and with pirates] How a Bill Became a Ship, Sinking in the Atlantic, by Marny Requa [Compiled from Congressional speeches] Two Prayers, by Paul Maliszewski [Shoe-switching and other perversions] Flops, by Daniel Radosh [Musical-bashing] The Lemon, by Lawrence Krauser [Some prose, some verse, much love] The Mineral Palace: The Lost Chapters, by Heidi Julavits [Colorado, many years ago. Also: Swedes] No Justice, No Foul, by Jim Stallard [Exposes the Supreme Court's weakness in the low post] Voice Recognition, by John Bowe [Experiment involving a cargo ship and IBM] Todd: A Show for Television, by Zev Borow y D. Eggers [It still has not been picked up] Math & Bullshit: Interview with Dr. Paul DuChateau, by Brent Hoff [Ravishing, this is] Also, shortish contributions from: Jonathan Lethem, Neal Pollack, Sarah Vowell, Jon Langford, Marny Requa, Mary Gallagher, and Tim Carvell

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