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We have even included some excerpts for you to check out. As you read through the Table of Contents, click on the gold links to catch a glimpse of what this issue holds for you. BONUS TRACK
This story does not appear in Tin House #10, but is a bonus for our on-line readers. Nick Torrey  YOUR REVOLUTION: BEATS, RHYMES, AND THE POLITICS OF HIP-HOP IN CUBAFICTION
Jonathan LethemLINER NOTENever knowing the name of the singers whose song stirs us is knowing too little; tracing their lives to the last chapter, it seems possible to know too much. Madison Smartt Bell ANYTHING GOESAn excerpt from the upcoming novel ANYTHING GOES. "There's this singer," my father said. Frederick Turner THE COTTON CLUBAn excerpt from 1929: A NOVEL OF THE JAZZ AGE. "Inside the door Johnson holds open for you, you get the same heady mixture of color, crime, and high style." David Ryan NEEDLE PARKAt our feet, the used needles, thousands, applauded as we walked over them. NEW VOICES
A. J. AlbanyLOW DOWNA daughter's bittersweet account of life with jazz great Joe Albany. POETRY
Thomas Sayers EllisUNDRESSING MR. WIGGLES GROOVALLEGIANCEJulio Marzán POETRY DJC. K. Williams LESSONSJudith Hall WHITE BOTTOM BLUESAdam Zagajewski LITTLE WALTZZoë Anglesey LETTER TO IVIE LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND CONSEQUENCESSean Singer THE OLD RECORDFEATURES
Rick MoodyON MEREDITH MONKIf you could do a dual interview with any artist on earth, who would it be? Lawrence Joseph THE MUSIC ISDiggin' the deep roots of Detroit R&B. Andrew Hultkrans BRIAN WILSON: NOT THE LITTLE BOY I ONCE KNEWWhen good vibrations go bad. Geoffrey O'Brien SILENCE IN THE AGE OF NOISECutting through sonic overload. Nina Bernstein Simmons FAR EAST SIDE STORYThe Bejing Orchestra's Crash Course in Leonard Bernstein. David Grubbs BONG BONG BONG (SILENCE)Finding the space between the notes with Tokyo's avant-garde. Darcey Steinke MY GUITARThe author, in her late thirties, puts down her pen and picks up a guitar. Eliot Weinberger WHERE THE KALULI LIVEThe click clack sing-song of the South Pacific. Robert Polito SHADOW PLAY: B-C-D AND BACKAre Dylan's bootlegs the true text? Susha Guppy LA CHANSON FRANÇAISEFor the love of the thousand-year-old song. Quincy Troupe THE CONTEMPORARY POP MUSIC OF AFRICA: AN APPRECIATIONThe poet on the Americanization of ooga booga. INTERVIEW
Francine Prose Interviews Leon MichelsTalking sax with mom. LOST & FOUND
Ken TuckerFighting the Bottle: Webb Pierce's country classic, "There Stands the Glass." Bill Wadsworth No More Bull: Sandy Bull and the deep song of the sixties. Nuar Alsadir Sisyphus Rising: Nick Drake's hour of consciousness. Edward Hill Mixed Up Confusion: Deciphering Bob Dylan's only book, TARANTULA. Richard Edson Jazz Heaven: "!!!!!Impulse!!!!!Art Blakey!!!!!Jazz Messengers!!!!!" THE LAST WORD
Reflections in the Mirror by Merle HaggardThe complete song titles of the "Poet of the Common Man." |
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