While You Were Sleeping [#22, 2003] ed. Nick Weidenfield & Neal Eckard (While You Were Sleeping; Bethesda, MD, $4.99, 98pp, slick bedsheet) Southern Issue. [TM]
82 · The Invisible Juror: C-Murder on Trial for Murder · Mike Weiss · hu; parody of current new"/hiphop journalism (illus nonconceptual [sic].
While You Were Sleeping [#24, 2003] (While You Were Sleeping; Bethesda, MD, $4.99, 98pp, slick bedsheet) [TM]
36 · Punch-Drunk Love: A Short Study in War Pornography · Ben Letzler · es; illus. with covers from magazines such as MANS ADVENTURE and ALL MAN, taken from Adam Parfreys ITS A MANS WORLD: MENS ADVENTURE MAGAZINES, THE POSTWAR PULPS, Feral House, and with an AP image of a Rowena Morril painting.
43 · A Joy Ceremony · William T. Vollman · ex; from 3500 self-indulgent nf pages of RISING UP AND RISING DOWN, to be published by McSweeneys in a six-volume set.
While You Were Sleeping [#25, October/November 2003] (While You Were Sleeping; Bethesda, MD, $4.99, 100pp, slick bedsheet, cover by William Eggleston) Four vignettes written around the photograph are offered in this otherwise nonfictional issue. [TM]
Whistling Shade: A Twin Cities Literary Journal
This is a free quarterly literary journal, approximately 11" x 14" tabloid on newsprint (actually eight 22" x 14" sheets folded to make sixteen pages; no staples or other form of binding).
Editor and publisher: Joel Van Valin.
Webmaster: Robert Wozniak.
PO Box 7084 / Saint Paul MN 55107.
website: www.whistlingshade.com
9-11 · Knock at the Door: A Personal Reaction · Judd Spicer · ss; listed on contents page as essay but described as fictional essay"--its a story by my definition: premise is authors friend Osama bin Laden drops by to chat.
10 · Sweet Anger for the War Horse · Brooke Noble · pm