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An interview with Ellis Avery

February 6, 2012

The super-talented Ellis Avery is the author of The Teahouse Fire, (Riverhead 2006), which won three awards and was translated into five languages, and The Smoke Week (Gival Press 2003) an award-winning personal account of life in lower Manhattan after 9/11. Her critically acclaimed new novel The Last Nude, centering on the relationship between Art [...]

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New show of drawings by Hilary Berseth at Eleven Rivington Gallery in New York City

January 20, 2012

All images courtesy of Eleven Rivington Gallery Hilary Berseth (SOA’ 2001) impressed with his first show at Eleven Rivington Gallery in 2008. He seamlessly blended nature with human agency; his honeycomb sculptures combined his own wood and wire armatures with wax and honey structures built by bee colonies. His manipulation of natural processes resulted in [...]

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Photohysteria in Paris

January 3, 2012

Every year, photohysteria descends on Paris in the form of the world’s leading photography fair, Paris Photo. This November, the Grand Palais off the Champs Elysees played host. I wandered in to take on the works of 117 international galleries, and to find out what the buzz was about. My starting point was Magnum, the [...]

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Issue 49

Issue 49
  • "Self Portrait as Franz West" by Carlee Fernandez
  • "Recycle" by Fia Backstrom
  • "Boundary of Life," Dario Robleto
  • "Dream House" by Doug Harvey
  • "Self Portrait: Portrait of My Father Manuel Fernandez" by Carlee Fernandez
  • "Rumspringa Quilt Double Double Rainbow" by Rob Pruitt

Current Issue: # 49

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. We were founded in 1977 and continue to be one of the few national literary journals entirely edited, designed, and produced by students. Our current issue features:

Fiction

Kevin Barry, Ernestine and Kit; Rudy Rucker, Vib; Karl Taro Greenfeld, Client; Joanna Hershon, Traveling in the Moment; Leni Zumas, Toothed; Annemarie Neary, Babylon

Nonfiction

Michelle Tea, Summer of Lost Jobs; Paul Elie, Good Editor Hard to Find; Molly Wizenberg, Excellence is an Ugly Pasta; T Cooper, Up in Arms; Frank Huyler, The Rock Star; Frank Huyler, The Accountant; Siri Hustvedt, A Few Thoughts on Reading; Kevin Haworth, Cut; Sara Faye Lieber, Interview with Judith Thurman

Poetry

Cal Bedient, After Bronzino; Brian Foley, Amendment; Bob Hicok, Were I Adam , the Poem I’d Write Eve; Bob Hicok, A Theory of Matter; Sarah Gridley, Camera Obscura; Jacques Rancourt, Winter Bedroom; Jennifer Militello, Dictionary of Feigning Survival; Jennifer Militello, Dictionary of Resignation; Sasha West, The Earth Is a Spartan Lover; Harryette Mullen, This Urban Garden: L.A. Tanka; Nathaniel Mackey, Song of the Andoumboulou : 89; Adam Day, Sarclet; Malachi Black, Coming and Going; Anne Shaw, Ransom; Michael Palmer, Traumgedicht; Franz Wright, Nude with Handgun and Rosary; David Lau, Walkie-Talkie Canticle; David Lau, Tombs Called Matilde; Kristen Gleason, Good Plan; Larissa Szporluk, Traffic with Macbeth; Mark Wagenaar, Nocturne Past Dreaming

Poetry Runner-Ups

Katherine Lucas Anderson, Wishful Thinking; Matthew Kelsey, Awake in the Woods of Sleep

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    Terese Svoboda, Sarah Manguso, Deb Olin Unferth, and more

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