ns.48|49 - the academics of publishing

  1. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION/
POETRY/FICTION
  1. EDWARD J. ENDICOTT/ What I Learned Before I Went to College
  2. BRANDON KERSHNER/ The Eudora Case
  3. JANET RUTH HELLER/ Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago
  4. BLAINE R. HAMMOND/ Letter to the Editor
  5. CLIFFORD E. LANDERS/ What (Verbatim) Poetry Editors Don't Want
  6. JESSICA JORDAN NUDEL/ Rapper KRS1 Upon Being Called a Poet
  7. ELENA ALEXANDER/ Tongue Ties
  8. Z. BART THORNTON/ Bad Spaces
  9. JAQUELINE WILCOXEN/ Sleeping Too Close to the Border
  10. BLAS MANUEL DE LUNA/ 99, part III
  11. BLAS MANUEL DE LUNA/ Bitter Earth, part II
  12. JAMES HAUG/ Levitt
  13. MICHAEL HUFF/ Shipping and Receiving
  14. PAMELA HUGHES/ Pages 49 and 50
  15. PAMELA HUGHES/ Garlic
  16. J.P. FLANAGAN/ Sanitation
  17. HUNT HAWKINS/ What School Teaches
  18. JANINE DEBAISE/ What We Learn
  19. TAMARA FRIEDMAN/ Rondo in C Minor
  20. PAMELA CROW/ Needs
  21. PAMELA CROW/ Bewitched
  22. ELIZABETH S. AMES/ First Date
  23. LAURA CINI/ Romance Language
  24. CYDNEY CHADWICK/ Negation
  25. AMITAVA KUMAR/ Lines on Princess Di's Funeral
  26. ELIZABETH ALEXANDER/ Sonnet
  27. ELIZABETH ALEXANDER/ Judge Gets Grandma to Whip Offender
THE ACADEMICS OF PUBLISHING
  1. JIM NEILSON/ Commercial Literary Culture
  2. EYAL AMIRAN/ The Publishing Imaginary and Electronic Media
  3. WILLIAM P. GERMANO/ Editorial Instinct: An Interview with William P. Germano
  4. NIKO PFUND AND JEFFREY WILLIAMS/ Editor as Catalyst: An Interview with Niko Pfund
  5. CECELIA CANCELLARO AND JEFFREY WILLIAMS/ Editing Not Academic: An Interview with Cecelia Cancellaro
  6. BEVERLY JARRET AND CLIFFORD MANLOVE AND JEFFREY WILLIAMS/ Editorial Experience: An Interview with Beverly Jarret
  7. PAUL LAUTER AND MIKE HILL/ Editing the Anthology: An Interview with Paul Lauter
SURVEYING THE FIELD
  1. JOHN TROMBOLD/ The Rise of American Cultural Studies: A View from East Texas (on Kaplan and Pease's Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, and Gordon Hutner's The American Literary History Reader)
  2. DAVID MITCHELL/ Invisible Bodies and the Corporeality of Difference (on Norden's The Cinema of Isolation, Davis' Enforcing Normalcy, and Thompson's Extraordinary Bodies)
  3. JARROD HAYES/ The Marxist Bedroom: Sex and Class Struggle (on Sprinkler's History and Ideology in Proust)
  4. DAVID GORMAN/ Avoiding Criticism (on Veeser's Confessions of the Critics)
  5. ANDRIJKA KWASNY/ Ethnic Occupations (on Lentricchia's Edge of Night, and Torgovnick's Crossing Ocean Parkway)
  6. ANTHONY C. ALESSANDRINI/ Whose Fanon? (on Read's Fact of Blackness, Gordon's Fanon: A Critical Reader, Sekyi-Otu's Fanon's Dialectic, and "Finding Fanon")
  7. RACHEL RIEDNER/ Canon Wars and Marxist Cultural Studies (on Robinson's In the Canon's Mouth, and Robinson and Bishop's Night Market)
PROVOCATIONS
  1. CARY NELSON/ Between Meltdown and Community
  2. STEPHEN WATT/ On Downsizing and Elitism
  3. RICHARD LEVIN/ "Activist Politics" and/or the Job Crisis in the Humanities
  4. JIM NEILSON AND GREGORY MEYERSON/ Mr. Levin's World

Books For Review/ 289
Contributors/ 295