The Missing Links
Fred Chichin, one half of Les Rita Mitsouko, is no more (although there is more here, there and everywhere). * Our friend Tony O’Neill on Boris Vian. * Highbrow smut in Paris. * Who’s afraid of “JT Leroy”? * Jonathan Self on his brother Will: “When Will was three he packed a suitcase with toys […]
The Lost and the Left Behind
Terry Glavin’s odyssey of extinction concerns itself with everything precious that is slipping away from us: birds, fish, animals, fruits, vegetables and yes, even entire dialects. Even though he is offering his findings to a society whose general environmental concerns lie elsewhere he is neither pleading nor aggressive in tone. He simply presents the facts in clean, spare prose, leaving the emotional side of things for his readers.
By Charlotte Stretch.
“Chicago”
I have never been to Chicago but I have been to “Chicago.” I’m there now, in fact. It has changed a lot since the last time, which was also the first. For instance, the dead sea. I was told I might find the writer here, the chronicler who could tell me about “Chicago.” They said this was where he “lived,” but I wanted to make sure.
By Edmond Caldwell.