Spring 2006 Contributors

Dave Munger has been an editor, teacher, book designer, and stay-at-home dad. He holds graduate degrees in English and science education and has written four college writing textbooks. Based in Davidson, North Carolina, he currently writes the blogs Cognitive Daily and Word Munger. Matthew Tiffany recently earned a masters degree in counseling and enjoys reading and writing. He lives in Maine with his wife and daughter. Derik Badman blogs at MadInkBeard and writes reviews for various publications. He works as a librarian in Pennsylvania. Beth Wadell studied English at UC Berkeley and is now a freelance writer living in Oakland, CA. Dan Wickett reads vast quantities of literary fiction and runs the Emerging Writers Network, and EWN Blog. Daniel Green’s criticism has been published in AGNI, Context, and The Antioch Review. He blogs at The Reading Experience. Brendan Wolfe is a writer and editor who lives in Iowa City. He has published reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus, January, and the Colorado Review. He is proprietor of the weblog The Beiderbecke Affair and is at work on a book about the early jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. Barrett Hathcock lives in Birmingham, Ala., where he works as a copyeditor. He has had other work appear in the Colorado Review, the MacGuffin, and the Birmingham Weekly. David Sepanik lives in San Francisco, CA. Megain Keane lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Terri Saul’s artwork has been exhibited at various galleries throughout the country. She holds a degree in art from UC Berkeley and lives in Berkeley, CA.

ISSUE 3

Spring 2006

Features

Breaking the Code: Against Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker implies that art that isn’t rooted in evolution is perforce bad and irresponsible art. Dan Green has other ideas.

Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard’s Correction

Bernhard’s predominant concern is the subordination of reality to language. David Sepanik discusses how in Correction the process of language overwhelms lived existence.

reviews

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert

Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman

Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

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