Back Issue
Volume 27,
Number 2
January/February 2006
Focus: The 100 Best First Lines from Novels
Charles B. Harris’s “Introduction to Focus: In the Beginning Was the Word” and “100 Best First Lines from Novels”
Michael Bérubé, Stephen Burn, David Cowart, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Andrew Ervin, Tom Grimes, Charles B. Harris, Kit Hume, Robert L. McLaughlin, Lance Olsen, Sally E. Parry, Nancy Pearl, James Phelan, James Schiff, Susan Strehle, Trey Strecker, and Eric Miles Williamson’s “Opening Lines: A Congeries of Reflections”
Feature: Literary Debuts
Mike Daily reviews Michael Mejia’s Forgetfulness
Louis McKee reviews Lee Briccetti’s Day Mark
Feature: The Twenties Generation
Nicholas Birns reviews Gerald Stem’s Everything Is Burning
Fred Muratori reviews Irving Feldman’s Collected Poems: 1954-2004
M. L. Liebler reviews Jack Gilbert’s Refusing Heaven: Poems
Book Reviews
Laura Wright reviews Eleni Sikelianos’s The Book of Jon and The California Poem
Paula Koneazny reviews Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond
Gabriel Miller reviews Daniel Fuchs’s The Golden West: Hollywood Stories
Stephen Burn reviews Lee Siegel’s Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Regina Weinreich reviews eds. Alan Kaufman, Neil Ortenberg, and Barney Rosset's The Outlaw Bible of American Literature and R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski’s The R. Crumb Handbook
Kristin Thiel reviews Lynda Schor’s The Body Parts Shop
Jocelyn Emerson reviews Denise Duhamel’s Two and Two: Poems
Pawel Frelik reviews William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central
Joseph Donahue reviews Ann Lauterbach’s The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience and Hum
Larry Smith reviews Sam Hamill’s Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Amy Sayre-Roberts reviews Nurla Amat’s Queen Cocaine
Don Melichar reviews Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men
Paul Keyes reviews Kirby Olson’s Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America
Larry Fondation reviews Steve Almond’s The Evil B.B. Chow and Alan Michael Parker's Other Stories and Cry Uncle
Justin Taylor reviews Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures
Richard Grayson reviews ed. Jonathan Ames’s Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
Davis Schneiderman reviews J. G. Ballard’s J. G. Ballard: Quotes
Ryan Smith reviews Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Hummingbird's Daughter
Departments
Page 2- From an Executive Editor
By the Editors- Recent Publications
<< Back to Volumes



