Vol. 2, No. 4
June/July 1998
s p o t l i g h t o n . . .
Poet
Jim Rushton
t h e s a l o n
Chris Lott
performs a self-interview,
Tom Dooley
on procrastination, violence, mortality, and more, and
Valentine Michael Smith
on a man named Jimmy
f r o m t h e i n s i d e
Prison essayist
Anthony Lee Brown
on the 87 Percent
m a k i n g t i m e
Music columnist
Don Mager
on Galina Ustvolskaya
i n p r i n t
Scott Ruddick
on June print offerings and the launch of
Vent
magazine
f i c t i o n
Stanley Jenkins, Judy Ossello Jeff Weston,
and
Katie Howenstine
p o e t r y
Catherine Farid, Curtis Harrell, Billy Little, Li Min Hua, David Starkey,
and
Diane Wald
n o n f i c t i o n
Dail Bridges
t r a v e l
A. E. Sadler
m i s c e l l a n y
Alan Kaufman
and
Russ Josephs
h u m o r & s a t i r e
Robert Brady
i n t e r / r e v i e w s
Reviews from
Ann Skea, Mark Leeper,
and
Harriet Klausner
c i n e m a
Reviews from
Shaggy Bob, Chris Null,
and
Mark Leeper
plus an interview with
Shane Meadows,
director of the film
TwentyFourSeven
Contributors' Notes