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About The Brooklyn Rail


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publisher: Phong Bui
art director: Amelia Hennighausen
associate art directors:
Kiu Yi, Walter Chiu
webmaster: Amanda Luker
assistants to the publisher: David Varno, Tam Tran 
production assistants: Erin Durant, Mary Simpson

editor: Theodore Hamm
art editor: Daniel Baird
contributing editors: Williams Cole, Meghan McDermott, Christian Parenti, Heather Rogers
theater editor: Emily DeVoti
fiction editor: Donald Breckenridge
city editor: Marjory Garrison 
music editor: Dave Mandl
poetry editor: Mónica de la Torre
dance editor: Vanessa Manko
film editor: Jonas Mekas
books editor: John Reed
managing art editor: Megan Heuer
contributing art editors: Dore Ashton, Joseph Masheck, Paul Mattick, Robert Morgan, Katy Siegel, Robert Storr, David Levi Strauss, John Yau
asst. books editor: Priya Jain
asst. dance editor: Claudia La Rocco 
asst. fiction editor: Jen Zoble
asst. film editor: Gregory Zucker
editors at large:
Scot Crawford, Alan Lockwood, Ellen Pearlman, Knox Robinson, Johannah Rodgers, Joan Waltemath 
copy staff: Michele Kogon, et al.
editorial assistant: Meghan Darakjy
staff photographers:
Peter Krebs, Brian Molyneaux

contributing writers:
Eleanor Bader, Madeleine Baran, Michael Brennan, Stephanie Buhmann, Brian J. Carreira, Mridu Chandra, Erinne Dobson, Ryan Grim, John Hawke, James Kalm, Farrah Karapetian, Norman Kelley, David Kilpatrick, Ben La Rocco, Randolph Lewis, Jim Long, Tomassio Longhi, Chris Martin, David N. Meyer, Andy Merrifield, Aimee Molloy, William Powhida,Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey), Christian Roselund, Hirsh Sawhney, Sonya Shrier, Todd Simmons,Douglas Singleton, Nick Stillman, Katie Stone, Brook Stowe, Roger White, Rachel Youens, Amy Zimmer

special thanks to:
Andy Warhol Foundation, mediaThe foundation, Abby and Mitch Leigh Foundation, Rex Auchincloss, Literary sections and In Dialogue are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Morris and Alma C. Schapiro Fund, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Dorothy Lichenstein, The New York Community Trust, The Golden Rule Foundation, Arcadia Foundation, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Frank and Elizabeth Newman, Benjamina Korman and Edith Mushulam, Daniel and Brooke Neidich Foundation.

mascots: Josephena and Monty


For art and business inquiries, contact:
The Brooklyn Rail, Inc., 99 Commercial Street #15 Brooklyn, NY, 11222
Tel: 718.349.8427

For all other editorial inquiries, contact:
The Brooklyn Rail, Inc. 43 Withers Street #3 Brooklyn, NY, 11211
editorial@brooklynrail.org


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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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