Brick, A Literary Journal: Issue 85

… so many adventuresome and courageous incursions and crossings of another sort, into stories and thoughts and poems that one could find nowhere else. This is a brick that needs to be heaved right through the windows of every reading mind on the continent.
— Ariel Dorfman

Brick 85 – Summer 2010
Brick 85 is in bookstores now! Our Summer 2010 issue includes the work of more than twenty internationally renowned writers and artists. Read Contributor Biographies…

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In this Issue:

Zadie Smith talks to Eleanor Wachtel

Sean Michaels deep under Paris

Javier Marías talks to Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Julio Cortázar writes to Luis Buñuel

New poetry from Laura Lush, Bob Hass, and Steven Heighton

Carl Wilson pays tribute to Kate McGarrigle

Gísli Sigurðsson represents his country, sort of

Dennis Reid remembers David Bolduc

Linda Spalding visits June Leaf

An excerpt from Michael Helm’s new novel

Eric Karpeles on Proust's American connection

Pico Iyer revisits the Outback

Damion Searls gets Rohmer's drift

Simon McBurney’s endgame

Joseph O’Connor falls for Patti Smith

Jim Harrison prefers birds, actually

Layne Coleman’s memories

Plus!
Alison Harris’s exquisite photographs of Il Teatro Sociale di Camogli
A full colour insert featuring the work of June Leaf and David Bolduc
And in THE REVIEW: Rawi Hage, Linda Spalding, Laird Hunt, Stevie Cameron,
and Maura Dooley

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Brick 85 – Summer 2010