The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail

Infobox Magazine
title = The Brooklyn Rail


image_size =
image_caption = The cover of the November 2006 issue
publisher = Phong Bui
frequency = 10 per year
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language = American English
category = politics, literature, popular culture
editor = Theodore Hamm
firstdate = 1998
country = flag|United States
website = [http://www.brooklynrail.org brooklynrail.org] Started as a broadsheet in 1998, "The Brooklyn Rail" became a full publication in the fall of 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui and editor
Theodore Hamm. Now a monthly journal, it covers arts and politics across New York City and around the world. Each issue features an array of political andliterary essays, art criticism, in-depth interviews, original fiction and poetry, as well as film, music, dance, theater and book reviews.

Articles have included interviews with Clare Short and James Longley on the Iraq war, Robert Scheer on presidents Richard Nixon through George W. Bush, and Wayne Barrett on Rudy Giuliani. Interviews on the arts have featured Michael Brenson, John Reed, David Levi-Strauss, Dore Ashton, Albert Maysles, Leo Steinberg, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Serra and Brice Marden.

In 2006, Hanging Loose Press published "The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology," edited by Donald Breckenridge, the "Rail"'s fiction editor. The Brooklyn Rail / Black Square Editions is also publishing forthcoming original work by Franck Andre Jamme, Pierre Reverdy, Jean Freman and Jonas Mekas. The "Rail" is based in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

ee also

*Street literature
*List of New York City newspapers and magazines
*Media of New York City
*Underground press

External links

* [http://www.brooklynrail.org Official Website]


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