From the monthly archives: October 2008

Two New Works on Roman Polanski

On October 26, 2008 By Jonathan Kiefer

“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”
Directed by Marina Zenovich
THINKFilm, 2008 “Polanski: A Biography”
By Christopher Sandford
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Probably no one would dispute the three most important facts of Roman Polanski's life: First, in 1943, the concentration-camp incarceration of his father and murder of his pregnant mother by the [...]

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NHR party/Palin poetry/NHR author signed to Pantheon

On October 20, 2008 By From the Editors

First things first: the issue #3 launch party will be at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, from 6pm to 8pm. Please come!

Second, we are thrilled that after we wrote about essayist Lee Sandlin, an undiscovered literary treasure, an agent on our email list contacted him, they got together, and [...]

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A Time Not Here

On October 12, 2008 By Amy Weldon

With photographs by Norman Mauskopf and an essay by Randall Kenan (Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1996)

On a slim, black cover floats a young boy’s face; on the spine, the title; on the back, authors’ names. Nothing more. This format proclaims primary loyalty to the photographs inside: more than fifty images of late-twentieth-century African-American [...]

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From Schlub to Stud

On October 5, 2008 By From the Editors

By Max Gross (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008)

Quick prefatory remark: a lot of people love Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, a book about his inability to write the book he really wants to write, a critical study of D. H. Lawrence. Now, I love OOSR too, but unlike most of its fans, [...]

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