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"Antimation" by TOMB - © 1999
| No. 30 ~ November 1999 |
<- ZINE-O-RAMA ->
Zine Reviews
by Ingrid Woodrow and Tom Hartman
Discover the wonderful world
of literary zines as we review 12 Gauge
Review, The Richmond Review,
XConnect, BeeHive,
Exquisite Corpse, and Impossible
Object.
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CRAFT ->
Out Of Print Writers
by M.J. Rose
According to e-authors and e-publishers we’re only a few chapters away from e-books representing a real threat to traditional publishers.
Don’t miss Pif’s annual Fiction
and Poetry Contest!
Prizes include $250 to the First Place Winner of the Fiction Contest and
$150 to the First Place Winner of the Poetry Contest. All winners and
Honorable Mentions will be published in Pif's March 2000 Issue.
Past winners include:
"The
Shidduch" by Leo Haber
(1998 Winner Pif Prize for Fiction)
"Pill"
by Ellia Bisker
(1998 Winner Pif Prize for Poetry)
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<- ONE ON ONE ->
Email Interview with Julia
Slavin
by Camille Renshaw
Julia Slavin discusses crushes on her lawn boy, excessive
metaphors, and passion as an integral part of her stories.
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<- FILM & SCREENWRITING ->
Remote Control
by Nick Burton
Nick takes aim at media pundits, offering up three films
that prove politics are seldom politically correct.
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<- SONGWRITING ->
Stick It In Your Ear
by Curt Cloninger
Curt cranks up the volume and takes a trippy ride through
the transcendental as he explores the very nature of "ambient" music..
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<-
HUMOR ->
Bold
Wurg
by Scott Wold and Michael Burgin
Read the latest installment of Bold Wurg, the exciting comic strip with a literary bent.
<- POETRY ->
"Over
the Canadian Shield"
by Tim Bellows
"The
Whisper Groove"
by George Prochnik
"The
Fragrance of Mignonette"
by Elisha Porat
"Odysseus
Was Stuck in Traffic"
by G. Purkis
"Ice
Fishing at Winter Solstice"
by Larry Gavin
"Decibel"
by Alec Kowalczyk
"Lux"
by Julie Ritter
<- MACRO-FICTION ->
"Waiting
for Joey"
by Michael J. Jasper
"One
Hundred Years of Amagran Cinema"
by Angela Woodward
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Lip Service "Rose allows Julia to quietly and powerfully build the
story to its denouement without shocking us, which only works to make
the climactic plot twist of the novel that much more disturbing..." Shells "The book's strength is the way its subjects become metonymy
for each other: sex, food, humanity, the creatures of the sea..." "It's difficult to know just how seriously to take Ludd's
nightmarish 'on-the-crumbling-road' fable. Some of the material is clearly
tongue-in-cheek, while other sections are unrelievedly grim" What To Read - -
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