The Sixties at Fifty
Volume 35, Number 3
March-April 2014
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Charles B. Harris’s Introduction to Focus — ’60s at 50: New Traditions
Ishmael Reed’s “Created in the ’60s”
Robert Coover’s “The ’60s at 50”
Curtis White’s “Great Yeah to Life”
Carole Maso’s “Reading in the ’60s”
William Gass’s “Birthday Boys”
Richard Powers’s “Children of the Revolution”
Feature: Alternative Histories; Beyond Words
Ryan Jay Burden reviews Phong Nguyen in Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History
Cay Dollerup reviews Kate Forsyth in The Wild Girl
Beth McDermott reviews Matthew Cooperman and Marius Lehene’s Imago for the Fallen World
Andrew S. Taylor reviews Anthony Rudolf’ Silent Conversations
Terry Dalrymple reviews Davis Jauss’s Glossolalia
John Tytell reviews Peter Orlovsky’s Peter Orlovsky: A Life in Words
Book Reviews
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s We Are What We Pretend to Be
David Galef reviews Bret Anthony Johnston’s Remember Me Like This
Karen Craigo reviews Stacy R. Nigliazzo’s Scissored Moon
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Susan Petrilli’s The Self as a Sign, World, and the Other Living Semiotics
Judith Podell reviews Laura Krughoff’s My Brother’s Name
Jan Garden Castro reviews Billy Collins’s Aimless Love
KM Seehaus reviews Alain Arias-Misson’s The Man Who Walked on Air
Tom McAllister reviews Adam Berlin’s The Number of Missing
Alexander Luft reviews Nathan Deuel’s Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East
Saara Myrene Raappana reviews Daniel Nester, ed., The Incredible Sestina Anthology
Heather Treseler reviews J. D. Smith’s Labor Day at Venice Beach
Mel Bosworth reviews John Oliver Hodges’s The Love Box
Jessica Berger reviews Kathleen Rooney’s O, Democracy
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
