A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF GLOBAL CITY REVIEWS NOTABLE
AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS
Issue #1/ Sexual Politics, 1993: interview with Marilyn French, author
of The Womens Room; essay on Derrida and V. Woolfs 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 Masters 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 Daums 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
Reviews ~ $8.50
Books ~ $12
Anthologies ~ $16
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Additionally, GLOBAL CITY REVIEW has published dozens of young
writers, some for the first time, and enough interesting and talented
contributors to double the list above.