A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF GLOBAL CITY REVIEW’S NOTABLE AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS

Issue #1/ Sexual Politics, 1993: interview with Marilyn French, author of The Women’s Room; essay on Derrida and V. Woolf’s “The New Dress”; poetry by Joan Larkin; fiction by Alix Kates Schuman and Felice Picano

Issue #2/ Paradise Lost, 1993: essay on postcolonial writers in Paris; poetry by Jean Valentine, Ann Lauterbach, Robin Becker, and Artists & Homeless Collaborative; fiction by Joan Silber

Issue #3/ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1994: literary/ sociological essay on American cities, myth and crime; essay on representations of the monstrous other in fiction and popular culture; memoir by Marina Budhos; fiction by Mary LaChapelle; poetry by Jane Cooper and Mark Doty

Issue #4/ To Make A Long Story Short, 1994: essay on Yugoslavia by Eliot Weinberger; essay on clinical research with blind children; interview with Grace Paley; memoir by Kathleen Hill; poetry by Cornelius Eady and Mary Gordon

Issue #5/ Crime & Punishment, 1995: interview with a gay cop; interview with two imprisoned white collar criminals; essay by New York Theological Seminary Master’s Degree candidates imprisoned at Sing Sing; poetry by Richard McCann

Issue #6/ To Sleep Perchance to Dream, 1995: interview with therapist Stanley Siegel; poetry by Jean Valentine, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Denise Duhamel; profile of choreographer Yienan Song; fiction by Patricia Chao, Jenifer Levin and Edward Swift

Issue #7/ Totem & Taboo, 1996: essay on silent film in relation to experience of the deaf; essay on classic 19th-century gothic novels and the demonic as male projection; fiction by David Madden, Susan Daitch, Jonis Agee; poetry by Linda Smuckler and Kimiko Hahn

Issue #8/ Fish Out of Water, 1996: new writers on cultural isolation, otherness; handwriting as story; translation of early 20th-century Budapest humorist, Frigyes Karinthy ; memoirist William Wilson, now deceased, on “how I think I got the AIDS virus.”

Issue #9 / Every Picture Tells a Story, 1997 annual: interview with novelist and art critic Frederic Tuten; essay on manga, Japanese comic books; essay on Paul Gaugin

Issue #10/ Courting Danger, 1998 annual: interview with national Book Award Finalist Edwidge Danticatt; essay on the significance of the corpse in the death of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini

Issue #11/ Laughing Matters, 1999 annual: interview with Eve Ensler, author and performer of The Vagina Monologues; Meghan Daum’s “Do The Rules on Your Therapist; ” Wayne Koestenbaum, Grace Paley and Sarah Schulman on kleptomania, expensive mammograms and pies; fiction by Jaime Manrique.

Issue #12/ Anything Can Happen, 2000: a fiction and art project on the representation of girls; memoir by a psychic, memoir by Michael Klein; essay on psychoanalysis and storytelling by novelist E.M. Broner and psychoanalyst Barbara Kane; fiction by Marilyn French, Victoria Redell, Darcey Steinke, Laurie Stone, Carolyn Ferrell

Issue #13/ Secrets, 2000 (SOLD OUT): fiction by Chuck Wachtel; memoirs by Hettie Jones and Rachel Hadas; poetry by Mary Morris, Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Timothy Liu

Issue #14/International, 2002: poetry by Roberto Tejada, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Pablo Medina and Cornelius Eady; memoir by Dubravka Ugresic

Issue # 15/Forked Tongue, 2005: Robin Blair's memoir on Jerzy Kosinski; fiction by Elise Blackwell and others; poets look at politics.


BOOKS


Ghost Stories a story collection by E.M. Broner
Safe House: Stories a story collection by Burton Schulman

ANTHOLOGIES


The Breast edited by Susan Thames and Marin Gassaniga with Heather Ramsdell
Girls edited by Edith Chevat, Laurie Piette, and Angie Argabrite


BACKLIST PRICES


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Books ~ $12

Anthologies ~ $16


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