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January-Febuary 2015 |Volume 11 Number 1
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Memoir
John Smelcer
America’s Scrappy Novelist (and poet?): A Memoir of Norman Mailer
Creative Nonfiction
Molly Krause
A Legacy of
AIDS in Ebola
Fiction
William T. Hathaway
Night in Bishkek
A shot woke the man. He lifted his head, not knowing where he…
Photography
Benoit Jammes
SKITCHEN: The secret sporting life
of our friends the fruits and vegetables
Welcome
A whole new look
Bina Sarkar Ellias from Mumbai, publisher of the exquisite International Gallerie 
magazine, preceded reading a few of her poems at Jadite Gallery in Hell’s Kitchen (New York City) in late December with a brief commentary on her goals and wishes: that her magazine, and her life, help illuminate understanding for and an appreciation of the diversity of characters in the great play we’re all in, with its new passages and chapters written into history with each passing moment. The diversity of the assemblage at that gathering was certainly representative of her dream, and of so many…
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Photographer Janez Vlachy’s City Night series
Slovenian photographer Janez Vlachy captures “the special atmosphere of cities at night, which is so much different than during the day. The process is very slow, as I shoot with the large format camera. Sometimes police come along checking on what I am doing; I always carry some identification on me. I like the tranquility of the process.”
Also see his previous work in ragazine.cc and more of this series at his website.
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Entwined/Creative Nonfiction
Entwined is a creative nonfiction piece that pulls readers into an unexpected intersection between the narrator, an ambiguous stranger, and a girl. This unsettling meeting mirrors the author’s own troubled emotional state, as she struggles to separate the two to reveal the truth of the encounter.
Nick de Angelis/Artist
Near the end of his life, Nick de Angelis began a series of paintings about death. He completed 15, three of which are included in this gallery.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret/On Location, France
Trois de France Par Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret RADOSLAW PUJAN Radoslaw Pujan : le regard et son double. Entretien avec le photographe Radoslaw Pujan à la fois détruit le voyeurisme et l'orchestre avec ironie. Il s’agit de retenir le «temps à l’état...
A Grand Adventure/Fiction
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Georges Seurat. Art Institute of Chicago *** A Grand Adventure by Gina Willner-Pardo er elderly mother’s death left Laila Rayburn untethered, a condition she had never...
A Room in the World/Fiction
A hundred-dollar radio lurks on the hutch playing its concoction of progressive radio and commercial crap at low volume. By the radio a red scaly organizer suns itself under a craning lamp.
Fabia Wong/In Search Of…
Photo by Mathieu-Perrier/Unsplash ** Notre-Dame de Paris and a reflection on Progress by Fabia Chenivesse-Wong Columnist he bishop of Paris commissioned the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris in the...
Steve Poleskie/Then & Now
How many innocent civilians have been killed by our military drone strikes? Many of these MQ-9 Reaper drones, on combat and surveillance missions over Afghanistan, are remotely piloted by members of the 174th Attack Wing based at Hancock Field, just a short drive up Route 81 in Syracuse, New York. How must it feel to go home to your wife and kids in Mattydale after just having destroyed, by mistaking them for a group of Taliban, a wedding party of innocent Afghan civilians?
The Reunion/Marlene Olin
He packed a week before his flight, bringing twice the amount of clothes that he needed. A sport coat in case people were dressing up. Jeans in case people were dressing down. A sweater in case it was cold. A golf shirt in case it was warm. For the first time in his life, Calvin went to a fancy salon where they manicured his nails and shaved his beard. He felt buffed and polished, his engine in good working order, his chassis gleaming. He read and reread each of Miriam’s books. He felt ready to tackle the world.
The Illustrated “On the Road”/Christopher Panzner
“The Illustrated On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac Illustrations by Christopher Panzner Project Details: he idea was to create a watercolor/ink carnet de voyage (travel sketchbook or...
The Age of Jackals/Henry A. Giroux
What must be remembered here is that neoliberal fascism cannot be understood narrowly as simply an economic system. It also functions as a form of public pedagogy and mode of persuasion and rationality intent on naturalizing its own worldview. Most importantly, it works through a range of cultural apparatuses to depoliticize by colonizing justifiable forms of mass anger and redirecting them into cesspools of hatred aimed at those populations considered disposable.
Rustin Larson/Poetry
Me, Being Rude A woman knocks, asks what I think the purpose of life is. Possible answers: 1) No. No, thank you. 2) The purpose of life is to not be asked such questions. 3) There is no purpose. Life just is. If the rose-petal goddess likes me, that’s a good thing....
Legacy: Lucien Clergue
At the age of nineteen, he managed to meet Pablo Picasso and show his work. Leaving the Arles bullfighting arena, Lucien Clergue summoned his courage and approached the then 62-year-old Pablo Picasso to show him his photographs. Clergue worked for the next two years to prepare a portfolio to impress the master. His photos of Provence and postwar ruins led to a five hour conversation with Picasso in Cannes in 1955 when Picasso promised to design a cover for Clergue’s first book as well as a poster for his first exhibition. While the poster was too provocative for the organizers to use, this meeting resulted in a lifelong friendship until Picasso’s death.
Brittany Markert Revisited
May 14th 2019 vs March 18th 2015 1. May 14th, 2019 “ It is no longer about myself or my camera, today I choose to show up.’ 2. March 18th, 2015 “ I looked in the mirror and realized everything I needed was right in front of me, myself and my camera. Anything is...
Primer to the Primaries/Redux
The ideological struggles noted speak to the tensions between economic and social (wo)man that have existed throughout human history. In other words, it’s always been a contest over how to best manage the two elements tied to human nature. Whatever systems might develop, this is something to keep in mind, particularly given that some form of capitalism may best serve the contemporary interests of both social and economic man.
The Music of the Aztecs/Book Review
“A Sibyl of Fortune,” Jan Claire Starkey’s segment, touches on the mythic — both legendary and personal — from “God” to “The Sphinx,” and she recalls her childhood in “Magic Castles.” However, she really shines when undertaking one of the most irresistible topics for poets — that of Icarus — in “Above the Labyrinth.” However, this rendition takes after the stance of a mother as onlooker to her progeny’s downfall.
Bruce McRae/Poetry
In The Beginning Was Their End The prophecy suggests the same old sun in the same old story. That the sky will brighten come morning. The prophecy tells us, without a doubt, an infant shall be led by death. It’s written in your book of the stars. It’s written in...
Lisa Dougherty/Poetry
A Raggity-Anne Her hair was short. A kind of long Bob. She was day-cared for the night time working Mom. So she found my lap familiar. First it was story time. Sat her there. Moved her arms as if they were an extension of we can be ridiculous sometimes. She’d...
We Became Summer/Book Review
We Became Summer by Amy Barone NYQ Books https://books.nyq.org/catalog.php 2018 (ISBN: 978-1-63045-053-3) (5” x 7”, paperback, 92 pages, $15.95) Review by Tsaurah Litzky Memorable Encounters Start With A Tongue1 [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Eric Fulgione/Poetry
Rye Sunburnt meadows stretch their golden tendrils and wrap me in their mystery. Cattails whisper soft secrets, beckoning me into their infectious oblivion. I keep walking. Sepia filters discard harsh hues and grey thoughts. Monochrome memories trapped in a tinted...