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Table of Contents
Editor's Letter

LOCAL
Learning from Miami: NYC Activists Beware!
by Williams Cole
There Goes The Neighborhood: Fort Greene
by Corrie Pikul
A Clinton Hill Condo’s Secret Past
by Claire Hoffman
Letitia James Takes Office
by Signe Shakelford
Coney Island: A 21st Century Attraction?
by Arthur Vaughan

EXPRESS
Out of the Blue: My Experience in the NYPD
by Yvette Walton
Ballots and Bloodshed: An Election Update from Guatemala
by Writers Bloc
Down the Up Escalator: Operation Tribute to Freedom
by Ryan Grim
A World Apart: Writing From the Front
by John Crawford

ART
Artseen:
Beside the Rose
Looking Both Ways
John Currin
Offal, David Shapiro
Terry Winters
E.V. Day
Mala Iqbal
David Opdyke
Guy Richards Smit
Patrick Martinez
Danny Goodwin
Joel Longenecker
Rick Prol
Manuel Pardo
Lois Orswell, David Smith and Friends
Rudolf de Crignis
Wim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth

Ryszard Wasko: Bedtime Stories
by Robert C. Morgan
in conversation: Thomas Nozkowski
with Chris Martin
in conversation: David Levi Strauss
with Joan Waltemath
Between The Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics
by Daniel Baird
Artbeat: Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance?
by Brian J. Carreira
A Reader’s Response to "Life at Vermont Studio School"

Victor Brauner (1903-1966): Centennial Celebration
by Valery Oisteanu
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
by John Hawke

BOOKS
John D’Emilio’s Lost Prophet
review by Mridu Chandra
August Kleinzahler’s The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
review by Peter Spagnuolo
Hayden Herrera’s Arshile Gorky: His Life and Works
review by Deirdre Swords
Irving Sandler’s A Sweeper-Up After Artists
review by Jim Long
Off The Shelves: fiction, politics and the arts
reviewed by Bookstaff
The Rail Recommends…
in conversation: Arnaldo Correa
with Nicholas Shumaker
The Writer’s Craft…of Making a Living
by Madeleine Baran

MUSIC
The Drums Is a Voice
by David Pleasant
Our Favorite Holiday Records
by Musicstaff

THEATER
Stories Within Stories: The Talking Band’s The Parrot
by Lizzie Olesker
The Sounds of Change: Tony Kushner’s New Musical
by Emily DeVoti
in dialogue: Shelia Callaghan
with Adam Szymkowicz

DANCE
Descent
review by Ellen Pearlman
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and RoseAnne Spradlin
review by Vanessa Manko

FILM
Outtakes: Where the Tony Meet the Phony: The Hamptons Film Festival
by Filmstaff
Dreaming A Little Dream: One from the Heart and Grams
by Lisa Rosman

TV
Fuse’s Video Resurrection
by Willa Paskin

FICTION
excerpt: A Note from the Underground
by Kevin Bartelme
Swallow Myself
by Gregory Rossi
Buried in Cups
by Kurt Strahm

STREETS
Inside Brooklyn’s Russian Bathhouses
by Todd Chandler

POETRY
Favorite Restaurant
by Joelle Hann
Storm Harp
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Sea of Red Death and Poiesis of the Better Life
by Tomás Harris
Animals
by Joelle Hann

LAST WORDS
Hoping She’ll Take Off More of Her Clothes
by Hal Sirowitz

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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason
Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical
guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.

Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn
www.voxpop.net

OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza
(718) 230-2100 in the 2nd Floor Auditorium

Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 till 9
John Ashbery
Leslie Scalapino

Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 till 9
Kenneth Bernard
Lynda Schor

Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 till 9
Diane Williams
Christine Schutt

Curated and hosted by the Rail's Fiction Editor Donald Breckenridge

The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards:

1st place: Best article about Immigrant Issues or Racial Justice--Gabriel Thompson, "One Immigrant's Journey" (September 2004).

1st place: Best article about the Arts*--Amy Zimmer, "The Brownsville Rec. Center" (April 04)

2nd place: Best article about the Arts--Brian Carreira, "Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance" (Dec 03/Jan 04).

2nd place: Best editorial or commentary--T. Hamm, "The Issue is Free Speech" (Dec 03/Jan 04).

3rd Place: Best Investigative News Story--Marjory Garrison, "Minimum Matter of Survival" (May 04)

Honorable mention: Best Investigative News Story--Williams Cole, "Housing vs. the RNC" (June 04).

Honorable mention: Best Original Feature--Yvette Walton, "My Life in the NYPD" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
Come to the Brooklyn Waterfront Festival.




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