 Fall 2007
Letter
from the Editor

Places
BY Leonard Pierce



Four Places
Real or Otherwise
BY Wakiza Gamez

Restlessness
The Persona of Places
BY Marly Kurtzer

“9/11 Was Four Years Ago, Champ. Get a Grip.”
Rescue Me and World Trade Center
BY Erica Jahneke

A Place to Land
America Through the Eyes of Ives and Agee
BY Steve Hicken

Automania
Driving as a Culture-Specific Syndrome
BY Leonard Pierce

“Somebody’s Got to Dig in the Damn Ground”
Breece Pancake, Stuck In West Virginia
BY John James

To Trip the Urban Fantastic
Roma and Tokyo-ga
BY Shauna McKenna

The Bottom Shelf
Maine Attractions
BY Scott Von Doviak




Marduk
Eeeeee-vil
BY Phil Freeman

Brian Wilson
Surf Pagan
BY Andrew Hickey

Peace, Lowe and Understanding
The Music of Nick Lowe
BY Greg T. Hough



The Reagan Diaries
A Simple Reminder
BY Phil Nugent

Epic of Ambivalence
Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise
BY Steve Hicken




Different Destinies
An Interview with Alex Ross
BY Steve Hicken

The Bat of Damocles
A Horrifying Look at the Red Sox’s Other Curse
BY Nate Patrin

Eat the World
The Age of Culinary Post-Modernism
BY Leonard Pierce




They Don’t Use Straitjackets Anymore?
Mental Illness in Popular Media
BY Kevin Fullam

Something Like an Obituary
Cinema’s Summer of Loss
BY Gary Mairs

The Forgotten Actor
George Segal
BY Phil Nugent

Alone and Forsaken
Images of Man at the Mercy of Nature in Gerry, Grizzly Man, Survivorman, and Man Vs. Wild
BY Hayden Childs




Ten Shows In Search of a Cult
A Future for Forgotten TV
BY Phil Nugent

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