Editor's Message
All Aboard!
Don’t blink. You may have missed another Rail event. Our most dazzling art show, “Made in Brooklyn: Selection 1,” curated by our publisher, Phong Bui, just closed in early March. It was capped off with a festive evening of readings and Cuban music. That came in the wake of a quiet lively reading we sponsored in late February by poet D. Nurkse, who’s interviewed elsewhere in this issue. Sprinkled throughout these pages, you’ll also find announcements of an NYU panel on the arts and neighborhood change that we’re involved wit, and of a regular reading series, organized by our forceful new fiction editor, Donald Breckenridge, that we’ll be holding starting in May as the main branch of the Brookyln Public Library. Check ‘em out, they’re all great events.
And be sure to stop by our revamped website, www.brooklynrail.org, a product of the prowess and handiwork of our stalwarts Michael Bubb, Amelia Hennighausen and Beth Rosenberg. There you can find your back issues, announcements of upcoming events, and the real nitty gritty, like our mission statement. Interactively speaking, we’d also like to hear more from you, the reader. By all means, feel free to write us a letter and let us know how the Rail makes you feel—angry, dizzy, and gleeful are three of many possible responses.
And one more note of thanks: to Amelia, our designer (etc.) extraordinaire, for making this issue—and all of the much, much more that we’re doing—happen… She rules.
T. Hamm
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
March Listings
By George Grella and Brad CohanMAR 2019 | Music
The Rail’s Highly Selective March Music Listings

DAVID LYNCH with Phong Bui
DEC 19-JAN 20 | Art
Those who have followed David Lynchs remarkable career as a filmmaker are likely aware of his equally remarkable career as an artist. From the very start, the creative impulse was sparked by his painting, then gradually through the unique pace of Lynchs alchemical growth.
March Listings
By George Grella and Brad CohanMAR 2020 | Music
Live performances around the city this month.
RACHEL FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui
NOV 2019 | Art
As Feinstein continues to follow her ambitious vision of life and work as one personal synthesis, the work from the last few years has gradually begun to reveal a desire to reconnect with aspects of strength and vulnerability of selfhood from her early years. Everything else in between seems to be caught perpetually in the issues of identity and the countenance of everyday life.