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No. 6 ~ Dark AgeBUY ISSUE
Thomas Frank’s “Why Johnny Can’t Dissent” is a once-in-a-generation lament that made punk rockers everywhere gasp at the futility of their attempts at rebellion. Meanwhile: Keith White turns his guns on Wired Magazine, Stephen Duncombe subjects himself to corporate edutainment, and Seth Sanders braves the theme-restaurant wasteland of Chicago’s River North. Joanna Coles describes the collapse of publishing while Charles Bernstein finds a few signs of life. Will Boisvert decodes the management theorists. Tom Vanderbilt bemoans the imperial arrogance of advertisers. David Berman recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Produced in Chicago in December 1994.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- Who Needs History When You Can Have Leaders David Mulcahey
- Soft City: Chicago Seth Sanders
- The Advertised Life Tom Vanderbilt
- A Thousand Points of Trite Maura Mahoney
- How Poetry Survives Charles Bernstein
- The Selling of Katie Roiphe Jennifer Gonnerman
- L’affaire Holt Damon Krukowski
- Look! I’m All Glue-soaked and Rag-tag: I’m an Authentic Fanzine! Steve Laymon
- $$$$$$$: That’s Publishing! Joanna Coles
- Apostles of the New Entrepreneur Will Boisvert
- How May I Serve You? Paul Lukas
- I Shall Be Released Jesse Eisinger
- I’ve Seen the Future, and It’s a Sony Stephen Duncombe
- The Killer App Keith White
- Dark Age Thomas Frank
Stories
- from How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
- Meeting Polanski Jamie Callan
- Clip-On Tie David Berman
- Famous Men Mike Newirth
Poems
- Ode To Protest Jennifer Moxley
- The Birthday Party Joe Fodor
- Tupperware Steve Healey
- Yvette Mimieux in Hit Lady David Trinidad
- Christmas Colors, Rochester, New York Margret Young
- Bert. Rod Smith
- My Progress On Stilts Charles Simic
- Residual Rubbernecking Charles Bernstein