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May, 2001
[L. intrinsecus is panel six from The Pi Process by Ted Warnell – © 2001
[L. intrinsecus
by Ted Warnell
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Piano
by Cindy Nichols
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
Lost Anecdote From the Pages of Vasari
by Garrett Brown
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
reviewed by Rachel Sage
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
Reading Arts of the Possible will convince you (if you weren’t already convinced) that Adrienne Rich is the kind of thinker who has long term relationships with her ideas. Written over a span of three decades, the essays in this collection return again and again …
Mary and O’Neil
reviewed by Ricco Siasoco
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
In his first collection of fiction, Justin Cronin proves himself a deft chronicler of everyday American life. The eight connected stories in Mary and O’Neil find their nexus in the character of O’Neil Burke, who, in the beginning of the book, is a smart, amiable …
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
reviewed by neal lipschutz
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
The easy thing to say about this sometimes gut-wrenching trip through the underside of the nation’s fast-food industry is that once you’re done you’ll think twice before strolling into McDonald’s or one of its numerous cohorts. Well, it’s easy to say, but it may not …
map Macro-Fiction
Closing the Gap
by Brad Bryant
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
A spider lives in a crack in my bedroom wall. The crack is highlighted by white smears where ineffectual insect spray has cleaned away the yellow smoke stains. I see the spider most mornings. It goes to bed as I rise. A huntsman that hunts …
portrait One on One
Interview with Rene Steinke
interviewed by Derek Alger
Issue No. 48 ~ May, 2001
Rene Steinke’s first novel, The Fires, was published by William Morrow in 1999, and the paperback version was published last year by HarperPerrenial. The novel was selected in 1999 by The Austin Chronicles as one of the best books of that year, and film rights …