Brick 76

How feebly the arts compete with the idea of what we are going to eat next. 
                                                                                 — Jim Harrison

In this issue:

• Colm Toíbín in Joyce’s Dublin
• Norman Levine: first and last writings
• Dionne Brand gets ready to rumble
• Jim Harrison goes the distance for Antonio Machado
• New poems from Damian Rogers
• Geoff Dyer on W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard,
  and Kenro Izu
• Donna Tartt’s true love for True Grit
• Toni Morrison talks with Maya Jaggi
• Oliver Sacks on Thom Gunn
• Darren Wershler-Henry on a very special dog
• David Sedaris talks with Esta Spalding
• A man, a plan, Panama? Richard Dittami takes his chances
• Kenneth Sherman and storytelling’s paths
• Tomás Eloy Martínez talks with Eleanor Wachtel
• An unpublished letter from William Faulkner
• August Kleinzahler’s Griffin awards speech
• Fanny Howe on Robert Creeley
• Cecily Möøs checks in from Denmark

Plus:

A Lodz testimony in words and images by Henryk Ross  

Photos and illustrations by:

Martin Helmut Reis, John Berger,  Helen Poizner, Marlena Zuber, Kenro Izu,  and Sam Tata