January 98 COVER STORY: Over 100 Films That Will Change Your Life An interview with Bound (and eventually Matrix ) directors Larry and Andy WachowskiCONTENTS: The Crazy Continuum of Film/Gadfly's Top Ten Films
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February 98 COVER STORY: Sod Awf! David Dalton ruminates on the Sex Pistols, punkgeist, rock theology and Sid the Id. Plus: The Little Club That Could: An interview with Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB's, the New York club where American punk was raised.CONTENTS: Punk albums old and new/Kurt Vonnegut/Oliver Stone & Gus Van Sant/Coen Brothers' Blood Simple/ Dr. Strangelove & the Bomb/Faulkner and Film/Jonathan Fire Eater/Dr. Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy/Stanley Spencer/George Solti's Memoirs
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March 98 COVER STORY: Slaughterhouse Earth: By John W. Whitehead Plus: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance: An interview with Francis BaconBy Michael Peppiatt MUSIC: Source of the Blues: Memories of Jimmy Witherspoon By Eric Burdon CONTENTS: John Prine/Les Enfants Terribles/A Retrospective of Renoir's Portraits/The Influence of Painting on Film/10 Recommended Films from '97/Interview with poet Dana Gioia/The Significance of Sinatra
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April 98 COVER STORY: Does fame kill? Wish you were famous? Wish again. Some reflections on fame & life expectancy By Tyler Cowen BOOK: The Man Who Would Be Muse: An interview with Ray Bradbury about the writing lifeCONTENTS: M.C. Escher/Thumbs Down, Mr. Ebert/Painter Lisa Yuskavage interviewed/Beach Boys' Pet Sounds /Brian Wilson's Epiphany at Azuma Beach/Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please /Conspiracy World
May 98 COVER STORY: James Dean: Osiris Morphing The anniversary of his death is celebrated annually on September 30th—yet to thousands around the world, the icon lives on. By David Dalton Plus: Who Was James Dean? The man through those who knew him CONTENTS: Rebel Males/Interview with Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley/The Crucifixion of Cool Hand Luke/A conversation with Roger Shattuck/Egon Schiele/Hüsker Dü/Memphis & The Beale Street Blues
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June 98 COVER STORY: The Seven-Ton Typewriter: Chronicles of Rage For five decades, Hunter S. Thompson has thrown himself into the darkest nooks and crannies of the American experience and emerged with tales to tell. By Peter O. Whitmer Plus: Fear and Loathing at the America's Cup: An interview with Ralph SteadmanBOOK: Trumpeting Truman: A conversation with George Plimpton about Truman CapoteCONTENTS: Interview with Tony Grisoni, co-screenwriter of the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas /New Journalism: Fact or Fiction?/Novelist Laurie Gwen Shapiro/To Be Like Tony/M. Scott Peck/Hallucinated Alphabets/Artist George Segal interviewed/Grunge Revisited/Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
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July 98 COVER STORY: Cartoons Are King, But How Long Will They Rule? By Ken Lieck Plus: Interviews with Dr. Katz creator Tom Snyder Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi FILM: Smart Luck: An interview with sex, lies, and videotape director Steven SoderberghCONTENTS: The Life & Works of Walker Percy/Bruce Springsteen's Greetings From Asbury Park /Sculptor Alberto Giacometti/First Avenue & 7th Street Entry/Carl Perkins: 1932-1998/In Search of Cindy Sherman/Joy Division/The Anime AlternativeAdd to Cart
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August 98 COVER STORY: Nineteen Sixty-Eight It was the best of times, the worst of times... The legacy of this schizophrenic year. By Jules Witcover Plus: '68 Remembered Interviews with Pat Buchanan, Bobby Seale, Curtis Gans, Alfred Corn, Pete Seeger CONTENTS: David Foster Wallace's Wacky World/That's Mr. Reed to You: The Story of Uncle Lou/Chuck Close/How Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives, or I Knew Linda McCartney Before She Became a Vegetarian!/Berkeley's Radical Roots/Lunch with Ken KeseyAdd to Cart
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September 98 COVER STORY: Clash of the Titans: Van Gogh & Gauguin in Arles Plus: Starry Starry Song: An interview with songwriter Don McLeanCONTENTS: Cheap Thrills , Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company/The C.S. Lewis Generation/The Space Age That Wasn't, or Why 2001 Won't Be Like 2001 /"Lilith Fair: A Dissent"/Pi director Darren Aronofsky interviewed/Arles Beyond van Gogh/Fear & Loathing in New York/Chicago's The Second CityAdd to Cart
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October 98 COVER STORY: Who's Afraid of The Exorcist? By John W. WhiteheadPlus: "A Great Love Story": An interview with The Exorcist writer William Peter BlattyCONTENTS: Richard Diebenkorn/The legacy of Edgar Allan Poe/If Christ Came Back as a Con Man, Or How I Started Out Thinking Charlie Manson Was Innocent and Almost Ended Up Dead/Divine Decadence: Memories of Glam/Squirrel Nut Zippers/As Good as It Gets: A rookie filmmaker encounters flatbed editing, film fests, and life amongst critics and stars/Hoodoo Voodoo
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November 98 COVER STORY: Hands Up: Outlaw Country By Stanley Booth Plus: Are There Any More Real Cowboys? Interviews with Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings Born in a Place: An interview with Emmylou HarrisCONTENTS: BR5-49/Ernest Tubb/Chaim Soutine, An Expressionist in Paris/Exploring Form and Narrative: The Fourth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference/Writer Elwood Reid/Ayn Rand/Nashville Just Before the Outlaws Rode Into Town/The Legacy of Uncle Tupelo/Filmmakers Brad Anderson & Lyn Vaus interviewedAdd to Cart
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December 98 COVER STORY: In Oprah We Trust By Bobby Maddex BOOK: Still Digging: An interview with writer William GassCONTENTS: Reflections on Jackson Pollock's Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art/ Flannery O'Connor/The Films of Preston Sturges/The Canonization of Pulp/The Cultural & Historical Ramifications of Saved by the Bell /The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus Thirty Years On/Interview with singer-songwriter Mary Cutrufello/The Prieboy Principle
January 99 COVER STORY: Top 5 Hits of the Twentieth Century By Paul Williams MUSIC: What's Welsh for Zen? John Cale on Lou Reed, weather magic, mercenaries, and the Velvet Underground By David Dalton MUSIC: Waving the Punk Banner: An interview with Greg GinnCONTENTS: A Guide to '80s Hardcore Punk/Strange Fame: Bret Easton Ellis/Akira Kurosawa/Sweet Dreams, James Dean/Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy: Lo-fi poet of the mind's own tides/Jana Sterbak/The life and death of Bob CraneAdd to Cart
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February 99 COVER STORY: Bring the Noise: An album-by-album rundown of hip-hop's best years By Nathan Brackett Plus: Hip-Hop 101: An interview with Black Thought of the RootsMUSIC: Buddy Holly: Never Fade Away By Lenny Kaye MUSIC: Just a Good Ol' Boy: Waylon Jennings talks about Buddy Holly CONTENTS: Salvador Dali/Bullshit Artist: The work of Breece D'J Pancake/Ralph Fiennes/The Prisoner /20th CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and "I Cover the Waterfront."/Moss-Gathering: The live recordings of the Rolling Stones/The Theatrical Top 10Add to Cart
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March 99 COVER STORY: Serious Spectacle: Little Stevie goes Hollywood By Daniel Kraus BOOK: The Heart Under Stress: An interview with author Tim O'BrienCONTENTS: The folk art of St. James/Psycho /Remembrance of Kinks Past: Ray Davies/20th CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights/Sun Ra: Space is the place/Pauline Melville's original fiction/Shakespeare FestivalAdd to Cart
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April 99 COVER STORY: The Perfect Interview: The Ali-Warhol Tapes By Victor Bockris BOOK: His Wonders to Perform: Crime writer Chester Himes By Melvin Van Peebles MUSIC: Charles Mingus: A musician beyond category By Nat Hentoff CONTENTS: David Mamet/Jonestown/D. A. Pennebaker on Bob Dylan, John Lennon, cinema vérité and Mary Poppins/TWENTIETH CENTURY'S GREATEST HITS: Winnie-the-Pooh/Olivia Tremor ControlAdd to Cart
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May 99 COVER STORY: The Universe of Frank Zappa By Richard Abowitz CONTENT: Elvis Presley: World of Hurt/An interview with Careless Love author Peter Guralnick/Phantom Menace/ Annie Oakley/TOP FORTY HITS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip/The Drug Bust of the Rolling Stones/Minimum Mandatory & the War on Drugs/Andy Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood / James Ensor and Christ's Entry into Brussels Add to Cart
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June 99 COVER STORY: Something Bad: David Cronenberg By Daniel Kraus Plus:"I still want to be an obscure novelist." An interview with David Cronenberg: By Victor Bockris MUSIC: Brian Epstein: The Fifth Beatle By Jon Savage MUSIC: Iggy and The Stooges: "Your Pretty Face is going to Hell..." and back By Lenny Kaye CONTENTS: Jonathan Lethem interviewed/Francis Bacon: The King of Pain/TOP FORTY HITS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"/Frida Kahlo: Mexican Visionary/Interview with novelist Tristan EgolfAdd to Cart
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July 99 COVER STORY: GORE VIDAL GALORE! America's Biographer: An interview with Gore VidalBy Richard Abowitz Plus: Vidal fields questions from Stanley Crouch, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Lind and others. Dick Cavett remembers "Mailer vs. Vidal" MUSIC: Songs to Save the Planet: An interview with Pete SeegerCONTENTS: Adventures in Art/Michael Herr's Vietnam/The Photographs of Linda McCartney/We Visit Mr. Zeitgeist or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jane Wenner/Free the Billboards: The Billboard Liberation Front's guerrilla campaign/What Killed Albert Goldman?/Indie SavantAdd to Cart
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August 99 COVER STORY: King of the Underground: The Magic World of William Burroughs By Victor Bockris MUSIC: Band of the Decade: Flaming Lips By Richard Abowitz BOOK: The Tao of the Willow Tree: An interview with Hubert Selby, Jr.CONTENTS: Re-Inventing the Wheel: Lars-Erik Fisk/The Art of Georgia O'Keeffe/The Return of Bernardo Bertolucci/Akio Morita: Hero of Headphones/Finally the Shocking Truth about Woodstock Can Be Told!/Sound Theater: L.A. Theatre WorksAdd to Cart
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September/October 99 COVER STORY: Cataclysm Now So you think wrestling is for idiots... Well, you're probably right (but our writer had fun anyway). By Daniel "Stone Cold" Kraus TV: The Black and White World of Rod Serling By Jonathan Lethem CONTENTS: 15 Great Twilight Zone Episodes/Honky Tonk Protest: Jon Langford's The Death of Country Music /The Existentialist at Rest: Paul Bowles/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Twenty-Five Years Later/The Return of Blind Joe Death: John Fahey and Revenant Records/Poetry by Alfred Corn, Michael Lind and Kate Light/Oz and Order/The Prison Playwright/Thomas MertonAdd to Cart
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November/December 99 COVER STORY: Altamont: End of the Sixties or Big Mix-Up in the Middle of Nowhere By David Dalton INTERVIEW: Women and Art: An interview with Judy ChicagoBy John W. Whitehead MUSIC: Marion Williams: The Genius of Gospel. By Robert Santelli BOOK: The Business of Literary Art: An interview with literary agent Andrew "The Jackal" WylieBy Victor Bockris CONTENTS: Kalle Lasn excerpted/ Hans Namuth: Portraits/Nadar-Warhol/He Was a Camera: Novelist Christopher Isherwood/Lynch vs. Burton/A Short History of Atari/Writer Mark Slouka interviewed/The Top Ten Albums of 1999/Paddy Chayefsky Turns on the TelevisionAdd to Cart
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January/February 00 COVER STORY: The Mystery of Terry Southern By Victor Bockris MUSIC: The Being of Bayyaybee: Ronnie Spector By Lenny Kaye FILM: Complete Harmony: An interview with filmmaker Harmony KorineCONTENTS: Harry Smith/Meredith Monk/Marketing God/The Extra/"Regarding Beauty" at the Hirshhorn/Bluesman Will Roy Sanders/A Guide to the Royal Trux/The John Lennon FBI files/Luisa Casati/Jerome Kitzke/Alberto Korda's Cuban pictures/Tommy Jarrell/Three great films and their tumultuous pasts
MARCH/APRIL 00 COVER STORY: Saint Marilyn By David Dalton MUSIC: Louis Armstrong By Nat Hentoff CONTENTS: Keith Haring/Being Woody Allen/The American Comedy/Best Films of 1999/The Man George Dubya Loves to Hate/The Legend of Oscar Micheaux/Herndon Ely: the Poetry of Tin-Can Bracelets and Mismatched Gloves.Add to Cart
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MAY/JUNE 00 COVER STORY: The Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson's Tabloid Reflections and Racial Rejections By Daniel Kraus ART: The Life and Work of Basquiat By Victor Bockris CONTENTS: I Feel Your Pain/A Real Beer Bust in NYC/The Man Who Killed Paul McCartney/The Ozark Saga of Singer and Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood/It Came on a Flaming Pie and Left on a Bullet/The Language of Rock Fashion/Media Startups/Douglas Coupland interviewedAdd to Cart
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July/August 00 COVER STORY: Culture That Splatters: The Blue Man Group By Shawn Gewirtz MUSIC: Lester Bangs, King of the Noise Boys By David Dalton CONTENTS: The Mad, Mad World of Glenn Gould/The Evolution of Pop and the Revolution of Style/The Genius of Curly/When Killing Makes No Sense/The Monster Within: The Evolution of the Myth of Frankenstein/Female Graffiti Artists/The Morbid Urge: Snuff Films/Machines of Sex and Death/Worshiping the Partridge Family/A Look at Incest in Film/The League of Non-VotersAdd to Cart
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September/October 00 COVER STORY: Which Way the Wind Blows: What Has Happened to Protest Music? By Grant Rosenberg MUSIC Hank Williams-Too Late, Too Late An excerpt from John Fahey's How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life CONTENTS: Militarization of Police/At the Movies with Franz Kafka/Does Dr. Laura Want to Spank America?/ Yo! The Last Poets, Progenitors of Rap/ American Zombie: George A. Romero's Three Decades of Cultural Cannibalism/Glimpses of Reality: Walker Evans/I Once Had a Human Who Loved Me/Monty Python and The Great British Invasion That Almost Wasn't/Something Was Happening, But I Didn't Know What It Was/Melville and Malt LiquorAdd to Cart
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November/December 00 COVER STORY: Cyber-Rome: Why Nero Would Feel At Home in Las Vegas By Christina Ball BOOK: Heroine Addict Creates Perfect Fix as Dear Abby Meets Born-Again Virgin Peter O. Whitmer on Tom Robbins CONTENTS: Internet Pop/Meet Me on Mermaid Avenue: Punk-Folkie Billy Bragg Gets Together With Music Legend Woody Guthrie/A New York City Boy Comes Face to Face with the World of Televangelism/Fifteen Minutes as the Hottest Black Screenwriter in Hollywood/Are You There, God? It's Me, the Miscreant Little Brother: Judy Blume's Harrowing Bestseller of Adolescent Sexuality Turns 30/A Dachau Memory/Robert Altman's Nashville /The Novelist and the Megaphone: Authors Who Direct/EL CHE VIVE!/Killer Art/BonhoeffAdd to Cart
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January/February 01 COVER STORY: Visions of the Seventies: By Victor Bockris LIFESTYLES: Frank Serpico: The Fate That Gnaws At Him By Kathleen F. Phalen MUSIC: Too Cool For School: An interview with Robert Pollard of Guided By VoicesCONTENTS: The Phillips Art Collection in Las Vegas/Eleven Mind-Blowing Films/ Brando/The Music of Harry Partch/Boris Vian Gets Paraphysical/Tom Waits/Allen Freed and the Rock 'n' Roll Revolution/Jimi Hendrix/Hank Williams III talks/Fela KutiAdd to Cart
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March/April 01 COVER STORY: Lenny Bruce: The Crucifixion of a True Believer By Nat Hentoff MUSIC: Into the Big Pink Yonder: The Band and I By Barney Hoskyns MUSIC: Bloomfield's Doomed Field Al Kooper on Mike Bloomfield CONTENTS: Cocksucker Blues/The Silencing of Clara Bow/10 Great Films of 2000/What the Devil is Up To/The Art of Yoko Ono/Tulsa: Drugs and The Flirtation with Death/The Art and Death of Pee-wee Herman/Boundaries/Ten Great Books/Salon.com's Jake Tapper interviewed/Corey Harris/Wild and Woolly: Janis Joplin and Bonnie Bramlett/The Saddest Man On EarthAdd to Cart
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