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Just in time for Valentine's Day,
the Guardian in London has
reviewed and raved about
The Secret Language of Sleep.
And, for the rest of the week,
you can buy it for $5!
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As many of you know, the new issue of our print version is out, and by now is in most stores. This issue is a hardcover book, and features four different dust jackets. One dust jacket has on it a man who seems to be suffering from terrible skin lesions. The second cover looks very much like the cover of Issue No. 1, with the addition of a medical drawing of a severed arm. The third cover is blank, with all of its images hiding on the back. Hiding from the bad people. The last cover is just red. Or, if you will, simply red. In addition, under each dust jacket is a different cover. One features pictures of Ted Koppel. One features new work by Susan Minot. And a third features a variation on the second cover, described above, though this version is legible only with aid of mirror. This inner cover also is featured under the red dust jacket. The red dust jacket is actually not yet available. It was printed, but we messed it up, and thus it was reprinted. It will be available soon. In this issue, priced reasonably at $16, no matter its cover, you will find many many good things, including the following: "The Hypnotist's Trailer" by Ann Cummins
The Observers, by Paul LaFarge
"Marie Curie, Honorable Woman," by Lydia Davis
"This We Came to Know Afterwards," by Susan Minot
"Mr. Squishy," by Elizabeth Klemm
Interview with Ted Koppel, by Sarah Vowell
"Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake," by Ben Marcus (no relation)
"Solicitation," by RJ Curtis.
Excerpts from new work by Rodney Rothman
"Soot," by Chad Willenborg
"The Days Here," by Kelly Feeney
"Solresol, the Universal Musical Language," by Paul Collins
"Mother May I," by Jason Ockert
Also look for: J. Robert Lennon's disturbing and as-usual-silkenly-written "The Accursed Items" Steven Barthelme's hard-biting "The New South: Writing the Newsweek Short Story." Joshuah Bearman has again interviewed his father, this time about his work on Mars Colleen Werthmann takes the idea of the Sex Story That Loses Its Way and writes a perfect thing, involving firemen and fires and hoses and young virgins, and, finally, archaelogy. Do not miss the end. Alastair Reid, long a translator of the work of Borges, here presents a short anecdote about that writer-man More Convergences by the irrepressible and neat-bearded Lawrence L.M. Weschler, Jr. - - - - That is all. As always, should you want to buy a copy and cannot find it in your local shop, please direct them to us and we will help them stock it. Thank you for your help and interest.
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The Birdwatcherist By Peter Bebergal A Clarification By Vali Chandrasekaran Some of the Things They Died of in Nineteenth-Century Santa Barbara, California By Rose Gowen A Spoken-Word Poem for America By Neal Pollack On Message By Paul Maliszewski |
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