Grand Street #72: Detours - Softcover

9781885490230: Grand Street #72: Detours

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885490232 ISBN 13: 9781885490230

Publisher: Grand Street Pr, 2003

In Grand Street's upcoming issue, digressions, detours, and deviations prove more fruitful than the beaten path. Antonio Tabucchi's sets off on imaginary adventures in "Books Never Written, Journeys Never Made"; Shozo Numa fast-forward's to a dystopian 40th-century nation in his postmodern cult novel, Yapoo, the Human Cattle, published here for the first time in English with anime illustrations; traitor Soviet General A. A. Vlasov meets his final destination in the second installment of William T. Vollmann's "Breakout"; Nobel Prize winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz takes up poetry to re-create the songs of his childhood; and Luis Sep�lveda chronicles unfulfilled moments in three vignettes from his collection Desencuentros. Along the way you'll find art by Susan Meiselas; postwar photography and writing by Shomei Tomatsu and Daido Moriyama; Jos� Manuel Prieto's observations on life in Moscow; an interview with director Paul Thomas Anderson; fiction by L�dia Jorge, Ozren Kebo and Ter�zia Mora; poetry by Rachel Hadas and Harryette Mullen; and portfolios by Shahzia Sikander and Artur Bispo do Ros�rio. Praise for Grand Street:Grand Street has all the loopy charm of a World's Fair. -- Vanity Fair~One of the most exciting literary magazines around. --Norman Mailer~A rich concert of what is adventurous and significant in our ever-developing culture. --James LaughlinGrand Street is historical and always a fresh surprise, sponsoring points of view that have not been exhausted. --Robert Rauschenberg Edited by Jean Stein.~Texts by Antonio Tabucchi, William T. Vollmann, Naguib Mahfouz, Luis Sep�lveda and L�dia Jorge. Paperback, 8.25 x 9.5 in./256 pgs / 312 color 16 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20261