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Reading & Seeing Paula Modersohn-Becker

Why the casket…? (for John Sinclair) by Ben Schot

On The Glorious Lie: An Anti-Guide for Mallarmé Poetics

Dreaming in the Dark: an Interview with Frank Uhle

Wakefield Press, an Appreciation by Tom Bowden

Escape to Moominland

Bookstore Patron Saints: Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier

Anti-racism in picture books

A Book Beat history in photos (part one)

Letter from Herb Boyd

Terry Blackhawk on Emily Dickinson

Punk House: a zine, etc.,

Glenn Barr’s Haunted Detroit

War of Album Covers

Purple Potty Visits Book Beat

Alice Coltrane Comes Home

Noise Putty, Monster, Robot, Creature, Secret Land

Efe Bes & Bambuti