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The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Changing Face Of Park 51
By Sabine Heinlein
I was a Brooklyn Townie
By Dave Mandl
Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
CITYNOTES
By Theodore Hamm

Express

SLOUCHING TIGER: A Letter from Ireland
By Michael Heaney
WTF, AMERICA!
By Paul McLean
The Torture of Bradley Manning
By Chase Madar
A Life of Reflection & Invention GORE VIDAL (1925-2012)
By Jonah Raskin
Walden in a Wired World
By R. H. Lossin
Out of Africa
By Allen Wilcox
City at War
By David Rosen
Cheat Sheet
By Max Neumeyer
In Defense of the Difficult
By Orli Van Mourik

Art

NANCY DAVIDSON with Kate Gilmore
GARY STEPHAN with Phong Bui
GILLIAN WEARING with William Corwin

ArtSeen

VIVIEN BITTENCOURT In the Arms of Time
By Ron Horning
JOSEF ALBERS in America: Painting on Paper
By Charles Schultz
CHARLES LONG Pet Sounds
By Desiree Gonzalez
JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN “Chardin’s Visor”
By John Elderfield
Some Shorter Lines for MARTIN PURYEAR
By David Levi Strauss
Paving Paradise Part II
By James Kalm
CHRISTOPHER KURTZ Longhand
By Robert C. Morgan
ALEXIS MYRE Orchid Petal and Small Twig of the Upper Hemisphere: “Ojo de Dios”
By Anne Waldman
A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around)
By Carter Ratcliff
EUGEN SCHÖNEBECK, “Saxon Landscape” (1964) Eugen Schönebeck 1957 – 1967
By Robert Storr
Seeing Blindness NICOLAS POUSSIN, “Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun”
By David Carrier
NICOLAS POUSSIN, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women,” (1633-34)
By Nathlie Provosty
JANET CARDIFF and GEORGE BURES MILLER The Murder of Crows
By Kara L. Rooney
MARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown
By Vincent Katz
The Nobody in a Field of Abstraction OTTO DIX, “Wounded Solider”
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
On the Drawing Cases at Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris
By Jarrett Earnest
“The Poetics of Wattage, after Alighiero e Boetti” ALIGHIERO BOETTI Game Plan
By Raphael Rubinstein
TAUBA AUERBACH, “How to Spell the Alphabet” Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Standing Still and Walking in Kassel dOCUMENTA (13)
By Terry R. Myers
On MICHAEL BERRYHILL’s “Sensitive Parlour Ghost” Incidental Western
By Phong Bui
Put Neon, Bright Light JAMES TURRELL, “Milk Run”
By Jeff Sanford
RAOUL DE KEYSER To Walk
ANDRÉ BRETON, PAUL ÉLUARD & SUSANNE MUZARD: 33 Collages
By Valery Oisteanu

Books

POETRY Making Panic
By Jeremy Benson
FICTION Going Off the Deep End
By Bernard Lumpkin
BENJAMIN TAYLOR In Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald
PETER M. WHEELWRIGHT with Scott Cheshire
JOHNNY TEMPLE with Justin Courter
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER with Mandy Keifetz
FICTION A Double Life
By Paul Charles Griffin
ART Deep in the Heart of Art
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION Alices Through the Looking Glass
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
CRITICISM Dyer About Tarkovsky About Desire
By Mary Hanlon
POETRY Ethos, Ethics
By Matt Reeck

Music

Cage at 100
By George Grella
Time and Materials
By KK Kozik
Everything but the Girl
By Kate Silver
Who’s Keeping Score?
By Kurt Gottschalk
FOUNTAINS AND FIREWORKS The New York Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

JONAH BOKAER with Nancy Dalva
French Disconnection
By Ryan Wenzel
Writing About That
By Siobhan Burke

Film

VOLUMES AND PRESSURES DEBORAH STRATMAN with Aily Nash
By Aily Nash
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH DEATH David France’s How To Survive a Plague
By Steve Macfarlane
BOILING BLOOD Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
HALLUCINATIONS OF THE REAL Hybridity and Experimentation at the 2012 Festival del Film Locarno
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Alone in the Interstices with Craig Lucas
By Winter Miller
Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Growing Strong Episode Two: London-Town, UK!
By Crystal Skillman
Ball Slapping on a Pile of Trash with Charlotte Miller
By John Michael DiResta

Fiction

The Great Ape
By Christopher Sorrentino
The Stars at Midday
By Peter Button
Interregnum
By Bishakh Som
Goodbye Again
By Nick Abadzis
Suspect Device—The Newspaper Comic
By Josh Bayer
Cries for Help
By Gary Sullivan
Jam Dream
By Scott Teplin
Graphica Verité
By T. Motley

Poetry

Five
By Ken Mikolowski
Two
By Andrew Durbin
Two
By Jason Koo

Art Books

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Return of the Repressed
By Courtney Fiske
Journalism and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
By Bill Kartalopoulos
Unfolded
By Sandeep Bhuller

SEPT 2012 Issue

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BISHAKH SOM is an artist and recovering architect who lives in Park Slope and you can see more of his work at http://www.archicomix.com/.

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SEPT 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Changing Face Of Park 51
By Sabine Heinlein
I was a Brooklyn Townie
By Dave Mandl
Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
CITYNOTES
By Theodore Hamm

Express

SLOUCHING TIGER: A Letter from Ireland
By Michael Heaney
WTF, AMERICA!
By Paul McLean
The Torture of Bradley Manning
By Chase Madar
A Life of Reflection & Invention GORE VIDAL (1925-2012)
By Jonah Raskin
Walden in a Wired World
By R. H. Lossin
Out of Africa
By Allen Wilcox
City at War
By David Rosen
Cheat Sheet
By Max Neumeyer
In Defense of the Difficult
By Orli Van Mourik

Art

NANCY DAVIDSON with Kate Gilmore
GARY STEPHAN with Phong Bui
GILLIAN WEARING with William Corwin

ArtSeen

VIVIEN BITTENCOURT In the Arms of Time
By Ron Horning
JOSEF ALBERS in America: Painting on Paper
By Charles Schultz
CHARLES LONG Pet Sounds
By Desiree Gonzalez
JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN “Chardin’s Visor”
By John Elderfield
Some Shorter Lines for MARTIN PURYEAR
By David Levi Strauss
Paving Paradise Part II
By James Kalm
CHRISTOPHER KURTZ Longhand
By Robert C. Morgan
ALEXIS MYRE Orchid Petal and Small Twig of the Upper Hemisphere: “Ojo de Dios”
By Anne Waldman
A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around)
By Carter Ratcliff
EUGEN SCHÖNEBECK, “Saxon Landscape” (1964) Eugen Schönebeck 1957 – 1967
By Robert Storr
Seeing Blindness NICOLAS POUSSIN, “Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun”
By David Carrier
NICOLAS POUSSIN, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women,” (1633-34)
By Nathlie Provosty
JANET CARDIFF and GEORGE BURES MILLER The Murder of Crows
By Kara L. Rooney
MARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown
By Vincent Katz
The Nobody in a Field of Abstraction OTTO DIX, “Wounded Solider”
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
On the Drawing Cases at Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris
By Jarrett Earnest
“The Poetics of Wattage, after Alighiero e Boetti” ALIGHIERO BOETTI Game Plan
By Raphael Rubinstein
TAUBA AUERBACH, “How to Spell the Alphabet” Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Standing Still and Walking in Kassel dOCUMENTA (13)
By Terry R. Myers
On MICHAEL BERRYHILL’s “Sensitive Parlour Ghost” Incidental Western
By Phong Bui
Put Neon, Bright Light JAMES TURRELL, “Milk Run”
By Jeff Sanford
RAOUL DE KEYSER To Walk
ANDRÉ BRETON, PAUL ÉLUARD & SUSANNE MUZARD: 33 Collages
By Valery Oisteanu

Books

POETRY Making Panic
By Jeremy Benson
FICTION Going Off the Deep End
By Bernard Lumpkin
BENJAMIN TAYLOR In Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald
PETER M. WHEELWRIGHT with Scott Cheshire
JOHNNY TEMPLE with Justin Courter
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER with Mandy Keifetz
FICTION A Double Life
By Paul Charles Griffin
ART Deep in the Heart of Art
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION Alices Through the Looking Glass
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
CRITICISM Dyer About Tarkovsky About Desire
By Mary Hanlon
POETRY Ethos, Ethics
By Matt Reeck

Music

Cage at 100
By George Grella
Time and Materials
By KK Kozik
Everything but the Girl
By Kate Silver
Who’s Keeping Score?
By Kurt Gottschalk
FOUNTAINS AND FIREWORKS The New York Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

JONAH BOKAER with Nancy Dalva
French Disconnection
By Ryan Wenzel
Writing About That
By Siobhan Burke

Film

VOLUMES AND PRESSURES DEBORAH STRATMAN with Aily Nash
By Aily Nash
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH DEATH David France’s How To Survive a Plague
By Steve Macfarlane
BOILING BLOOD Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
HALLUCINATIONS OF THE REAL Hybridity and Experimentation at the 2012 Festival del Film Locarno
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Alone in the Interstices with Craig Lucas
By Winter Miller
Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Growing Strong Episode Two: London-Town, UK!
By Crystal Skillman
Ball Slapping on a Pile of Trash with Charlotte Miller
By John Michael DiResta

Fiction

The Great Ape
By Christopher Sorrentino
The Stars at Midday
By Peter Button
Interregnum
By Bishakh Som
Goodbye Again
By Nick Abadzis
Suspect Device—The Newspaper Comic
By Josh Bayer
Cries for Help
By Gary Sullivan
Jam Dream
By Scott Teplin
Graphica Verité
By T. Motley

Poetry

Five
By Ken Mikolowski
Two
By Andrew Durbin
Two
By Jason Koo

Art Books

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Return of the Repressed
By Courtney Fiske
Journalism and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
By Bill Kartalopoulos
Unfolded
By Sandeep Bhuller

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