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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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