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DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS—William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg–reviewed

Marc Olmsted

DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Steven Taylor, ed.) Three Rooms Press $26.00 Those lucky enough to have socialized with William Burroughs report the best situations had...
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The Bouncer by David Gordon – Review

Bernard Meisler

The Bouncer, a novel by David Gordon The Mysterious Press, New York, 259 pages Legend has it that when criminals and others in "the game" would read Elmore Leonard's novels, they always assumed he was a crook who had don...
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Three Poets, Three Books — Café Crazy, We Became Summer, and Blue Lyre

William Considine

Café Crazy, by Francine Witte We Became Summer, by Amy Barone Blue Lyre, by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright   On Wednesday, June 13, three well-known Downtown New York poets read together from their new books, published w...
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The Brothers Allman

Vincent Zangrillo

In 1969, Duane Allman founded the Allman Brothers, recruiting his brother, Gregg, on keyboards and vocals, a second guitarist, Dickie Betts, bassist Berry Oakley and a set of drummers, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johansen. In Ju...
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where night and day become one—the french poems /1983-2017 by Steve Dalachinsky—review

Valery Oisteanu

where night and day become one the french poems /1983-2017 by Steve Dalachinsky Great Weather for Media, NYC, 2018 Steve Dalachinsky is a poet /cultural reporter of our time, not only via his essays, but also through...
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A Hermit Has No Plural by Gabor G. Gyukics – Review

Ron Kolm

A Hermit Has No Plural by Gabor G. Gyukics, Singing Bone Press. A Hermit Has No Plural, a collection of poems by the great Hungarian writer, Gabor G. Gyukics, is wonderfully unique. It is a surrealist vision of a world...
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Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine – review

Vincent Zangrillo

Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagen. Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95 hardcover (545 pages) The title tells the tale: first the rock cultural reference, then the editor, then ...
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Enthrall & Squalor: Photographing Downtown 1977-1987

John Weed

“Walking home at night was taking your life in your own hands.” Or so said one of the subjects of the documentary Blank City, about life in the East Village in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. (By 1990, your...
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KISS KISS: Very Short Stories – review

Thaddeus Rutkowski

KISS KISS: Very Short Stories by Paul Beckman Truth Serum Press, Adelaide, Australia Review by Thaddeus Rutkowski Paul Beckman’s new collection of flash fiction, Kiss Kiss, is characterized by multiple uses of ...
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, stories by Denis Johnson, reviewed

Vincent Zangrillo

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden [stories] Denis Johnson. Random House. $27 Denis Johnson’s latest, and unfortunately last, volume of short stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, published a quarter century after hi...
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Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats – Review

Marc Olmsted

Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti $16.95, Shambhala Books The title of this collection comes from a rather obscure Bruce Springsteen song that David Bowie covered and ...
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Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective

Franklin Mount

The first Bergman film I ever saw was Cries and Whispers. My father took me. At age 14. It was on a double bill with Amarcord. If that sounds like a strange juxtaposition of films for a double bill, well, it is. Cries an...
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Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017

Jim Feast

Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017 1) The Battle of Memories (Leste Chen, China) Phillip K. Dickish plot where a futuristic technology goes awry. A process of selectively erasing painful memories gets mixed-up, and th...
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Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017

The Editors

Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in 2017—it's just something we enjoyed in 201...
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Pierced by Night-Colored Threads, by Dean Kostos, reviewed

Ron Kolm

Pierced by Night-Colored Threads by Dean Kostos, published by MadHat Press, (Asheville, North Carolina, 2017). Reviewed by Ron Kolm I’ve read a fair amount of poetry; I was the editor of The Evergreen Review for thr...
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INterzone’s title text ascends in an expressive flair, setting an introductory tone for Flame Schon’s singular action expressed as a psychedelic video that expands straight...
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The Sex Pistols: The Dance Band at the End of the World A tall girl in a yellow ostrich feather top and red Bettie Page bangs, simulates oral sex with Sid, who says, Now that's ...
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