Rob Gurwitt (5 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. All pages and front cover are clean. First few pages show a light vertical crease as does the front cover. Some whitish marks on the back cover. Upper left corner of the back cover is creased. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Steel Town Lockdown" (No one has profited more from the boom in private prisons than Corrections Corporation of America. The company is substituting shackles for steel in Youngstown, Ohio, importing thousands of violent inmates from out of state.) by Barry Yoeman; "The Diddly Awards" (The envelope, please. Presenting the First Biennial Diddly Awards, in honor of our Do-Nothing Congress. From Newt on a blanket to Patton in charge, the only loser is democracy.) by Jack Hitt; "Libby's Deadly Grace" (W.R. Grace & Company knew that asbestos from its Montana mine could harm workers and their families, but kept quiet for decades. Only now is the town learning what caused the epidemic of lung disease that keeps on killing.) by Maryanne Vollers and Andrea Barnett; "Light in Oxford" ( A vibrant independent bookstore anchors the small town at the heart of Faulkner's Mississippi. Its proprietor, Richard Howarth, has helped Oxford move from riots to renaissance.) by Rob Gurwitt; "Wedded Bliss" (In what is supposed to be life's most joyous ceremony, we are all, perhaps, just actors in uncomfortable clothes.) by Verlyn Klinkenborg with photos by Alex Webb; "False Forests" (Timber companies are fast replacing Southern hardwood forests with vast plantations of pine trees that are as carefully tended as cornfields--and as ecologically sterile." by Ted Williams; plus Editor's Note; Contributors; Backtalk; Outfront; Exhibit; Wide Angle; Power Plays; The Commons; Media Jones; and The Future of.

Paperback. First edition. Very Good paperback journal with light signs of handling/shelving and a penciled price to the contents page. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The ninth issue of DoubleTake magazine (Vol. 3, No. 3), Summer 1997, the award-winning quarterly journal "devoted to the written word and to the visual image." Each issue mixed prose, fiction, and poetry with photography-based art. This issue includes: photo-essays by Larry Fink, Paul D'Amato, Mary Berridge, Andrew Borowiec, Liberto Macarro, Steven Ahlgren, and Gregory Paul; essays by Ian Frazier, Carlo Rotella, Tom Sleigh, Jeanne Schinto, Rob Gurwitt, and Thomas Kelly; a conversation with William Maxwell by Edward Hirsch; fiction by Richard Cohen, Bharati Mukherjee, and David Michael Kaplan; poetry by William Meredith, Carl Phillips, Billy Collins, James McManus, and Philip Levine; work by John Berger, Karen Bucher, Christina Cahill, Anderson Scott, Kwame Dawes, and others; and more. Edited by Robert Coles and Alex Harris. 144 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9 x 11 inches.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Very Good with minor shelf/age wear. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Pbk, 178pp, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by both authors on title page, oblong 4to, profusely illustr in color throughout, covers very faintly shelfworn but otherwise bright and crisp, appears unread and internally an excellent clean tight unmarked text, becoming harder to find. Inscribed by Author(s).