November/December 1998
[Volume 20, Issue 1]
Some Like it Hot: Erotic Lit
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Table of Contents
FOCUS: Erotic Literature
An Introduction: Some Like It Hot: Erotic Lit
Chris Rutledge
Demure Degradation
Marisa de los Santos reviews Erotic New York: A Guide to the Red Hot Apple
Goat Song
Barry Wallenstein reviews The Orgy by Muriel Rukeyser
One's Hot, The Other's Not
Lauren Sanders reviews The Leather Daddy and the Femme by Carol Queen and White Stains by Anaïs Nin
Sexual Bread
Maerwydd McFarland reviews Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis, translated by Olga Broumas and Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, translated by
Stephen Mitchell
One Hot Ride
Michelle E. Hynes reviews Too Darn Hot: Sex, Culture, and the Kinsey Report edited by Judy Bloomfield, Mary McGrail, and Lauren Sanders and Herotica 5 by Marcy Sheiner
Hot Chats
Chris Rutledge reviews The Edge of the Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life by Lisa Pala
FEATURE: The Cartoons of Tuli Kupferberg
The Fugs, the Time-Track, and the Cartoons of Tuli Kupferberg
Russell Hoover
FEATURE: Halls of Academe
The New Patriots of the Cultural Left
Janet McNew reviews Michael Bérubé's The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs and the Future of Literary Studies
Waiting for Godot to Get Tenure
H. Kassia Fleisher reviews Emily Toth's Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
We'll Tell You What You Need to Know
Bob Blaisdell reviews Martha Nussbaum's Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Campus Follies
Lem Coley reviews Richard Russo's Straight Man
BOOK REVIEWS:
Fascism's Other
Marjorie Perloff reviews Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression, by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, and Jean-Louis
Margolin
Hyperrealities of Everyday Life
Ihab Hassan reviews Natsuki Ikezawa's Still Lives, translated by Dennis Keene
Where's the Beef
Ricardo Cortez Cruz reviews Omar Castañeda's Naranjo the Muse
Who Is Jules Siegel . . . And Why Is He Taking Virtual Liberties?
Kevin Carollo reviews Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List by Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler, et al.
Back Covered
Joe Napora reviews Kent Johnson's Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada
A Curious Kind of Derangement
Fred Muratori reviews Rochelle Owens's New and Selected Poems, 1961-1996
Staying Alive
David Allan Evans reviews Dan Masterson's All Things, Seen and Unseen: Poems New and Selected, 1967-1997
Saint Bruce
John Verlenden reviews Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer
Force of Nature
W.B. Keckler reviews Endocrinology by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (poetry) and Kiki Smith (art)
Learning How to Die
Claudia M. Milian Arias reviews Sandra Benítez's Bitter Grounds
Science-Fiction in Reverse
Dimitri Anastasopoulos reviews Paul West's Terrestrials
What the Fish Know
Kathy Stevenson reviews Richard Hague's Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life
Ruptured Lives
Margaret Huntington reviews Naomi Ayala's Wild Animals on the Moon and Ha Jin's Facing Shadows
What the Light Discovers
Barry Silesky reviews Michael Heller's Wordflow
From the Backlist
Summings Up
Gardner McFall reviews Lisel Muellers Aive Together: New and Selected Poems and Margaret Gibson's Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems
DEPARTMENTS:
Picketing the Zeitgeist
Literary Paparazzi by Rochelle Ratner
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
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