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2002 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Africa Talks to You

  published November 12, 2002

  "Current research among naturalists tends to break down any remaining class distinction between animals and man," began composer William Bolcom's... More >>

• Proggy Went A-Jammin'

  published November 5, 2002

  Progressive rock and metal's double-clutching, gnat-note precision smashes headlong into the jamband clan's urge to luxuriate in the never-ending... More >>

• Race Against Time

  published September 10, 2002

  Noir writing gets an unexpected literal twist in Charles Willeford's brilliant and cynical 1955 novel Pick-Up. A relationship involving a... More >>

• Speed Junkies

  published August 20, 2002

  "Speed is the essence of modernity," writes Dale Pendell. In fact, adds the impish italicized voice that pops up throughout the pages of his... More >>

• Wandering Spirit

  published June 11, 2002

  Not a discouraging political word mars Karim Dridi's Cuba Feliz (Film Forum, through June 18), a minimalist documentary that follows an... More >>

• Hand Me the Jam

  published March 19, 2002

  "I'm not [an actor]," wrote Phil Austin in The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays, published six years after the group's creation in... More >>

• Fairy Tale Suicide

  published January 8, 2002

  I almost threw Amanda Craig's happy-sad novel about manic depression across the room about two-thirds of the way through. Her protagonist, a... More >>