November 2007
The “November 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 4, 2007.
Editor’s Message
Learning from New Orleans
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
A Brief History of Beards
– By Jed LipinskiThe Blight and Plight of Condoburg
– By B. Colby HamiltonAccidentally Caring
– By Shell FischerIn Staten Island, a Teenage Tour Guide of the Maritime Wastes
– By Alexander CuadrosThe Digital Design Process: For All to See: The men and women behind the computer screens take center stage.
– By Hailey Eber7 + 3 is 9
– By Samantha BerkleyA College Grows in Williamsburg
– By John Bredin
Express
An American Griot: Gil Scott-Heron with Don Geesling
Madressa
– By Nadia DavidsWeapons of the Weak?
– By Ryan HagenA Real Man of War
– By Michael BuschNew Orleans' African Retentions: Willie Birch with Billy Sothern
Starving the Christmas Beast: Rob VanAlkemade with Williams Cole
Alumni Week
– By Doug Cordell
ArtSeen
Chris Marker Staring Back Film Program
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbucklePeter Williams: Artistic Repair
– By Thomas MicchelliMark Greenwold A Moment of True Feeling 1997 – 2007
– By John YauGetting Over It: A Morality Tale
– By Thomas MicchelliEllen Berkenblit
– By Lynn CrawfordRichard Prince Spiritual America
– By John YauMel Kendrick
– By Ben La RoccoAleksandra Mir Newsroom 1986-2000
– By Jen SchwartingDawn Clements: Conditions of Desire
– By Cassandra NeyeneschGarbage Collection
– By Hrag VartanianMaking a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
– By Robert C. MorganBrooklyn Dispatches: An Unobstructed View
– By James KalmProject for a New Neoist Academy
– By Warren FryManufacturing Dissent
– By Shane McAdamsThe Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawings by Writers
– By Valery OisteanuLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamNeither New nor Correct New Work by Mark Bradford
– By Becky BrownSeeing in a Different Light: A Profile of Ralph Rugoff
– By Sherman SamA Day with The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program
– By Maxwell HellerHiroshi Sugimoto: History of History
Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute– By Tessa DeCarlo
Books
Fiction: Prose is But a Stage
– By David VarnoLit(t)eral Poetics
– By Ben TrippProse Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFiction: Pain Under a Microscope
– By Yael KormanFICTION: Fiction in a Flash
– By Aaron Leichter
Music
Atrocity Exhibitions
– By Matthew OzgaGogol Bordello and the American Dream
– By Dmitry KiperBecause I Said So
– By Grant MoserElusive Butterfly
– By Tony CoulterLust Will Tear Us Apart
– By Jim Feast
Dance
Sam Kim's dumb dumb bunny at The Kitchen
– By Carley PeteschThe Ugly Company Performs Star
– By Carley Petesch
Film
Thank Heaven for Little Girls
– By Tessa DeCarloUnoriginal Gangster
– By Mark AschOutgrowing Promise
– By Sarahjane BlumIt's, Like, Canonical
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
Our Town 2007: Colin Denby Swanson's Atomic Farmgirl
– By Justin BoydTarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size
– By John BeerPeering in at the Zoo: Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo on American Theater
– By Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo
Fiction
Steam
– By Dawn RaffelNorth of the Middle
– By Dawn RaffelNairobi
– By Terese SvobodaLondon Boy
– By Terese SvobodaHot
– By Roberta AllenThe Stroke of Midnight
– By Terese SvobodaThanksgiving
– By Roberta AllenActing Out
– By Jonathan BaumbachStaples Center
– By Larry FoundationHigh Winds
– By Larry FoundationThe Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt Strahm
Poetry
from Goodbye Tissues
– By Deborah MeadowsPoetry by Carmen Gimenez Smith
– By Carmen Gimenez Smithby Brooke Inman
– By Brooke Inman