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ISSUE #2: THE ABYSS

FICTION:

THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT by Lynne Tillman

THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN by Lonely Christopher

MY ANIMAL FAMILY by Mariya Gusev

JESUS ARMY by Andy McCarthy

HUMP DAY by Ilka Pinheiro

DIGGERS by Catherine Bailey

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Patrick W. Gallagher

SPECIAL THEME OF FICTION: THE VAST MATERIAL CHASM

NONFICTION:

LOUD IN THE HOUSE OF MYSELF: MEMOIR OF A STRANGE GIRL by Stacy Pershall

WHERE'S DAD? by Roberta Allen

SPECIAL THEME OF NONFICTION: TROUBLED FAMILIES

POETRY:

BOOK BURNING by Hal Sirowitz

DOE by Ian Demsky

CITIZEN ABSENCE by Tim Shores

HOW ZINZI CAME TO BE by Zinzi Clemmons

PHONIES by Hal Sirowitz

SPECIAL THEME OF POETRY: CODE DOOM

BOOK REVIEWS:

PYM by Mat Johnson.  Reviewed by Brendan Beirne

POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA by Ryu Murakami.  Reviewed by Daniel Lukes

ISSUE #2 CONTRIBUTORS:

Author of eight books, ROBERTA ALLEN is a short story writer, novelist, and memoirist. Her 2000 novel, The Dreaming Girl, will be republished by Ellipsis Press this fall. Her fiction has recently appeared in Guernica and The Collagist. She is finishing a memoir called Dirty Girl: A True Story and two story collections. She is also a visual artist in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. She teaches private writing workshops.

CATHERINE BAILEY is an archaeologist turned author. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, she currently resides in Los Angeles where she works as a freelance writer and editor. Her book reviews and articles appear on Zocalo Public Square.

BRENDAN BEIRNE is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on the contemporary encyclopedic novel.  He is book review editor at ANIMAL FARM.

ZINZI CLEMMONS is a writer and editor of South African descent living in New York City. Her poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Transition Magazine, Joyland Magazine, African American Review and Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora. She is a contributing editor at ANIMAL FARM.

IAN DEMSKY, a longtime investigative newspaper journalist, often draws from public records in his poems to help make visible what J.G. Ballard called the "invisible literatures" of our society. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

PATRICK W. GALLAGHER is the editor/publisher of ANIMAL FARM and curator/host of ANIMAL FARM, a reading series. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Glasses Glasses, The Adirondack Review, The Battered Suitcase, PopMatters, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Wheelhouse, and elsewhere. Plus, Patrick is writing his PhD thesis in the department of Comparative Literature at NYU.

MARIYA GUSEV is a writer, editor, and literary translator, based in NYC. Currently, she is Associate Editor for the St. Petersburg Review.  Her translation projects include interviews with the St. Petersburg homeless for two chapters on Russia included in Poor People by William T. Vollmann, and stories by four Russian authors, which appeared in an anthology of contemporary experimental short fiction, Rasskazy: New Stories From a New Russia. Her translations have also recently appeared in Madhatters' Review, Habitus, and the Virginia Quarterly. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of poetry.

LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, several poetry chapbooks, and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. Most recently, he is directing a feature length film, titled Mom, which he also wrote. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

DANIEL LUKES  is currently finishing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. His articles, reviews and interviews have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Decibel,While You Were Sleeping and Il Manifesto. He is also in the process of compiling an edited volume of scholarly essays on William T. Vollmann.

ANDY McCARTHY: Doubledecker bus tour guide; archives student at CUNY, Queens College; banjo player; blogger for Queens College at http://mccarthy.qwriting.org/; movie blog at http://mccarthyshinebox.blogspot.com/; and mograbs.com.

STACY PERSHALL is a belly dancer and artist living in New York City. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of A Strange Girl was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2011, and is a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection for 2011.

ILKA PINHEIRO grew up in Brooklyn, with educational sojourns in Concord, Massachusetts and Evanston, Illinois. She's written several short stories, an animated series for Italian television, and is working on a novel about liars. She's currently studying creative writing at Columbia University.

TIM SHORES works in Oakland and sleeps in Berkeley, CA. He co-wrote Only Fresh Lemons with Jack Griffith for the Planet Ant Theater in Hamtramck, MI. He writes poetry for friends, but his heart of hearts is in technical documentation.

HAL SIROWITZ is a former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. His first book was Mother Said. His latest book is Father Said. In between he wrote My Therapist Said, and Before, During & After.

LYNNE TILLMAN is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture, and her fiction is anthologized widely. Her last collection of short stories, This Is Not It, included 23 stories based on the work of 22 contemporary artists. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy (2006), No Lease on Life (1998) which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Cast in Doubt (1992), Motion Sickness (1991), and Haunted Houses (1987). The Broad Picture (1997) collected Tillman’s essays, which were published in literary and art periodicals. She is the Fiction Editor at Fence Magazine, Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, and a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.  In April 2011, Red Lemonade Press will publishSomeday This Will Be Funny, a collection of Tillman's stories.

Issue #1: GREETINGS (Nov. 29, 2010)

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