Open City #14

by Seabrook, John; Nersessian, Arthur; Bern, Betsy; McPhee, Martha

• ISBN13: 9781890447274
• ISBN10: 1890447277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-07
• Publisher: Grove Press, Open City Books

Summary

Open City features a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures from writers of past eras. Including fiction, essays, poetry, and artwork by an exciting range of talents, Open City has presented new works by Michael Cunningham, Deborah Garrison, Rick Moody, David Foster Wallace, Geoffrey O'Brien, Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, David Berman, and previously unpublished work by Delmore Schwartz, Richard Yates, Edvard Munch, and Ford Madox Ford. Praised in the pages of publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Library Journal, and The New York Times, Open City is today's most important literary journal. Open City #14 includes John Seabrook on ancestor hunting; Arthur Nersessian, from Fuck-Up to makeup; new fiction by Betsy Bern and Martha McPhee; and the original treatment for the improvised cult-classic film Waiting for Guffman.

Table of Contents

Contributors' Notes	12	(13)
The Blood of Familiar Objects	25	(8)
Sarah Porter
The Glass Garden	33	(6)
Michiko Okubo
Guilty Pleasure	39	(20)
Nico Baumbach
Snake, World Drawings	59	(10)
Louise Belcourt
Time for the Flat-Headed Man	69	(12)
Noy Holland
Bile	81	(8)
Stephen Graham Jones
Psycho-narratives	89	(8)
Amy Hill
Enough About Me	97	(12)
Elizabeth Grove
Why the Long Face?	109	(20)
Craig Chester
Drawings	129	(8)
John Kormeling
Discalmer	137	(4)
Lee Ann Brown
Three Poems	141	(4)
Harryette Mullen
Sandaled	145	(2)
Rod Smith
Flight	147	(4)
Stacy Doris
Three Poems	151	(4)
Cecilia Vicuna
From Cunt-Ups	155	(4)
Dodie Bellamy
``Something like ten million . . .''	159	(4)
Anselm Berrigan
Two Pages from The Screens	163	(4)
Brian Kim Stefans
Self-Portrait	167	(2)
Lisa Jarnot
Three Poems	169	(4)
Cynthia Nelson
House Is a Feeling	173	(6)
Peter Culley
The Poem I Was Working on Before . . .	179	(6)
Maggie Nelson
To Write It Down	185	(2)
Brenda Coultas
Paintings, 1977-1987	187	(8)
Rene Daniels
Sumerian Economics	195	(6)
Hakim Bey
From World on Fire	201	(18)
Michael Brownstein
New York City Street Photographs	219	(14)
Ken Schles
Letters	233