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flip book

At about minute 18:40, we learn that magnificent force of literature Rick Harsch will publish an Alex Kudera "flip book"; I believe that may mean Rick is publishing two works in one volume. Please donate to Corona \ Samizdat if you can. To do so, contact Rick at Rick DOT Harsch AT gmail DOT com.

James Baldwin

Beauford Delaney's Portrait of James Baldwin is on temporary display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

to shield the blast from the three of them

"Years later, in the chaos of a firefight, Prany watched as a farmer picked up and brought a live grenade to his stomach to shield the blast from the three of them. They had been wandering the mountains in the east and had been running toward an abandoned truck that was blocking the passage.

"As the grenade detonated, as the man's shirt ballooned before he sank to his knees, Prany thought of his father--the smell of him, his poor posture, the permanent tar stains on his fingers. How in the early mornings as Noi slept, Prany would sneak out ahead of him, climb a tree, and wait for his father's motorbike to pass under along the road."

~~ from Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon

from the great Gary Amdahl

W.D. Clarke posted an article by Thomas Pynchon, Corona\Samizdat's Rick Harsch delivered a new video, and a couple months after finishing Gary Amdahl's Across My Big Brass Bed, I opened Gary's I AM DEATH to find these kind words. In other news, Eclectica Magazine is soon to publish "A Day's Worth"; it's my latest short story about surviving in America.

our hopeless cause

Robert G. Kaiser's "Unraveling a Repressive Regime" in The New York Review of Books is a detailed review of To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans. The nonfiction took decades to research and is a Pulitzer Prize Winning account of Soviet dissidents in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.