September 2010
The “September 2010” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 3, 2010.
Editor’s Message
Coming this Week
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Sunset Park Women's Cooperative Says SI SE PUEDE!
– By Eleanor J. BaderCity Notes
– By Theodore HammLearning From White Castle
– By Dave KimA Windy Path
– By Katy BolgerThe Staten Island Ferry Terminal
– By John Byron KuhnerFinding God in a Watering Hole
– By Erika Eichelberger
Express
1984 2.0: Gary Shteyngart with Alessandro Cassin
SIR FRANK KERMODE AND SHIGEO TOKUDA: Scholar and Porn Star
– By Christopher G. MooreThe Spring Festival
– By Xiaoda XiaoART ATTACK
– By John ReedA REAL FUTURE: Sam Green with Astra Taylor
Art of Theft
– By Abby MarguliesBourdain's Grill
– By Katie RolnickWes Is Moore
– By Christopher MichelEllison's Latest
– By Lester PimentelThe Imperfect Storm
– By Michael TerryNever Stop Writing
– By Allen Wilcox
ArtSeen
Johns and Warhol (Again)
– By John YauAlabama Picasso
– By Ben La RoccoTwilight of The Gods
– By Thomas MicchelliBRENDA GOODMAN Work 1990 – 2010
– By John YauHEAT WAVES IN MY CORTEX Charles Burchfield, British Petroleum, and The Invisible Fire
– By Craig OlsonSUZAN FRECON Recent Painting
– By Joan WaltemathKITSCH AND THE AVANT-GARDE How the Brotherhoods Set the Stage for Utopia
– By Robert C. MorganRIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER A Day Like Any Other
– By Kara L. RooneyThe Summer Ramp Down
– By Shane McAdamsSARAH RAPSON Transcendental Materialism
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleThe Game
– By William PowhidaWORK OF ART TALK Critics on Bad TV
– By Patricia MilderRESTORATION PROJECT Work of Art
– By Sharon L. ButlerBROOKLYN DISPATCHES: "Even the Truth Needs Propaganda"
– By James KalmPAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS Key to the City
– By Cora FisherThe Ghost in the Dreamachine
– By Valery OisteanuBABETTE MANGOLTE Presence, Movement and Stills
– By Cora FisherJILL MAGID A Reasonable Man in a Box
– By Michael StrausYVES KLEIN With the Void, Full Powers
– By Greg LindquistSITE SANTA FE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL The Dissolve
– By Phong H. BuiLIUBO BORISSOV crowdsource
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataJENNIE C. JONES Electric
– By Sophie LandresTHE DAWN OF MODERNISM: Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Photography
– By David St.-LascauxHAUNTOLOGY
– By Liz WingFRANCIS ALŸS A Story of Deception
– By Sherman Sam
Books
Declan Spring with Finn Harvor
– By Finn HarvorFrederic Tuten with John Reed
– By John ReedBLAZING SUNBURSTS AND HOWLING MONKEYS: David Winner with Andrea Scrima
– By Andrea ScrimaWorks on Paper
– By Johannah RodgersTheater of Cruelty
– By Jeffrey StanleyEmerging from the Fog
– By Sarah GerardAre You Sure Species Exist?
– By Miranda MellisRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
BERBER BANJOS AND GNAWA TOADS: Searching for the Sounds of Marrakech
– By Kurt GottschalkBAM Agonistes
– By George GrellaNEWTOWN RADIO: Brooklyn's First Rock Radio Station
– By Mimi LuseEndless Summer
– By Kate SilverOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyPersuasive Percussion
– By Julie Kocsis
Dance
Capture It
– By Quinn BatsonLETTER TO A CRITIC: Finding the Right Words to Say the Right Things
– By Mario A. ZambranoMount Tremper Arts, A Patchwork Impression
– By Patricia MilderEditor's Note
– By Mary Love HodgesA Studio of One's Own
– By Mary Love Hodges
Film
WANNA TALK MORE ABOUT FEUERBACH? A Near Century of Vampire Films
– By Sarahjane BlumNever Insignificant
– By Julia SirmonsOlivier Assayas' Carlos
– By Sean GlassMuzzle Blasts, Cleavage, and Paddle Balls on the Repertory Circuit
– By Bruce BennettAn Interview with Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida
Theater
Filling the Void: Indie Performance Publishing
– By Alexis ClementsGregory S. Moss Is Not A Prodigy
– By Mallery AvidonThe Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
– By Meghan Falvey
Fiction
Dark Charlie
– By Laird Huntfrom LOVE
– By Sarah Frenchfrom LETTERS TO MADELEINE
– By Guillame Apollinaire and translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-SmithTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyTommy's Well
– By Bruce SeymourShitty Mickey
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo
Poetry
Five for Kenneth Fearing
– By Owen HillSelf-Portrait Wishing I Were Li Po
– By Benjamin GantcherTwo
– By Matt ReeckTwo
– By Bakar Wilson