Brick 73 – Summer 2004 Our Summer 2004 issue includes the work of more than twenty internationally renowned writers and artists. Read Contributor Biographies… Order No. 73 now! In this issue: Tony Kushner talks to Eleanor Wachtel Margaret Atwood’s cat at the Pearly Gates Rosalind Brackenbury goes back for Elisabeth Janvier Daniel Rivas’s childhood in his father’s tortilla factory A new long poem by Patrick Lane Excerpts from Northrop Frye’s notebooks Why “drunk as a rolling fart” isn’t in Greg Hollingshead’s new novel Lost Classics: Aislinn Hunter on Paula Modersohn-Becker Jeffrey Eugenides and omens All-new Proust! Lydia Davis talks and translates—an interview with Saul Anton Another report from the food front by Jim Harrison The letters of Gabrielle Roy and Joyce Marshall An excerpt from a new novel by Maggie Helwig Russell Banks on Mavis Gallant’s Montreal Lawrence and Sara Weschler reveal a family secret to Ira Glass Katharine Vansittart eats kelp Live from Pittsburgh! Michael Chabon! Stan Dragland’s in the mood for love Men with dresses: Per Kristiansen’s photographs from the Terroni Queens calendar, for St. Christopher House A message from Brick’s comptroller AND Cecily Moös resigns! PLUS, a special photographic insert: American Polaroids by Gerald Wallace Goode Order this issue now!