Open City #18

by Nick Tosches, Open City Magazine, Eileen Myles, et al.

Open City features fiction, poetry, and artwork from a dynamic range of voices -- from established writers such as Michael Cunningham, Irvine Welsh, and Mary Gaitskill, to emerging talents like Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, and David Berman, to classic voices from the past including Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Yates. Open City features writing and art preoccupied with the forces effecting the character -- physical, intellectual, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890447323
• ISBN13: 9781890447328
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Open City Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

the "New" paris review

funky and astute might be appropriate adjectives to describe Open City mag., which is more than a literary portrait "of New York City and the city in general." with writing not merely urban(e) or cynical (consider the dense, nature-themed poetry of Rodney Jack and the quirky yet illuminating work of Catherine Bowman in #18), here is the intelligentsia--artful and heartfelt, in a format as original as the visions it collects.