Brick 75

Description

• In this issue:
• An interview with Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• Lawrence Weschler’s art tour
• Poetry by Roo Borson, Carolyn Forché, Robert Creeley, and W. S. Merwin
• An illustrated poem from the archives of Milton Acorn
• Kent Nussey on the writer’s difficult journey
• Vasco Ray goes up in smoke in the Congo
• Don Paterson reveals a few poetic secrets
• Christopher Zinn recalls the age of AM airwaves
• Alastair Bland on science at play
• Robert Creeley remembered
• Pictures from the Av Isaacs vault
• Michael Elcock tries to pin down the queen’s dressmaker
• Amit Chaudhuri on John Ford
• An essay on landscape and painting by Rackstraw Downes
• A daughter of Iraq returns
• Pico Iyer on literary coincidence
• Brad Cran pulls back the curtain on politics and film
• From Donald Richie’s journals
• Nadine McInnis on the faces of madness
• Kevin Connolly talks to Roo Borson
• A memoir by Rosalind Brackenbury
• Jim Harrison and the serpent
• New work from Chris Ware’s sketchbook

• Plus:
• A catalogue of original manuscript pages created especially for Brick

• Photos and illustrations by:
• Chris Ware, David Hockney, Breyten Breytenbach, Richard Serra, Bill Morrison, Clifton A. Bazar, Av Isaacs, Sue Schenk, Rackstraw Downes, Farah Nosh, Abbey Huggan, Martin Berkovitz, George Duncan, Rick/Simon, Vasco Ray, and David Donald