IN THIS ISSUE #16.
The Prisons issue…
EAP makes a break for it…
A lot of prisons we don’t even know we’re in…take, for example, how we look at money…JOHN MERRYMAN interviews economist BERNARD LIETAER in COMMUNITY CURRENCIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE where he says if you change your view of money, you change the world…And our view of the world should be ours and not that of a compromised media…FLOYD WEBSTER RUDMIN argues you have a duty as a thinking adult to pay attention in CONSPIRACY THEORY INSIDE OUT …in BOB’S PHOTO GALLERY: SAFETYVILLE things also are not what they seem…
And it’s better to know what’s really going on. ALEX COX goes to prison in an airport in STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT …HARVEY HARRISON reports on the prison of reducing people to just one thing in A CASE FOR ULTIMATE NONREDUCTIONISM … STEPHANIE SIDES looks at THE PRISON OF SECURITY …GAEA YUDRON at LIVING IN SAD TIMES …SEAN WATKIN is a PRISONER OF LOVE …and REBECCA HARRISON struggles to get out from behind those modern bars in RAMBLINGS OF A CONFUSED TEEN.
MIKE MADRID throws off the shackles of a frighteningly hip corporation in PRISON BREAK (welcome out, Mike)... STEPHANIE SIDES mulls WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN: THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLITUDE …then there’s GET OUT OF JAIL FREE: TWO POEMS by DAVID BUDBILL … And EAP music editor MAX VERNON opens the door with MAX’S FIVE SONG PICKS .
EAP has a new Philosophy Editor, HARVEY HARRISON …and since EAP thinks the whole point of philosophy (and everything else, too, come to think of it) is to understand what makes a better world and then to make it, we’re happy he’s started with FROM THE DIGITAL AGORA: THE SAD INUIT …where he asks the basic philosophical question: “What’s wrong?” ( Next month, Harvey goes further into the unknown to become EAP’s Philosophy and Digital Literature Editor… look for his new digital shorts feature: BURNING SHORTS…)
If you only read one thing in EAP this month, it should be CLARINDA HARRISS’ POETRY MAKES THE CUT …where poetry bears witness to the freeing of an innocent man after thirty eight years wrongful imprisonment…And in ON GETTING OUT OF PRISON…WALTER LOMAX says what it’s like to be that man…and he does the right thing…he just gets on with it.... THIS MONTH’S EDITORIAL talks about that, too…
THE RED CAMP is back, with Emily elected class president….And in SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY: Chapter 24, Lily’s landed back in Megalopolis, and can she ever find her way back home?
The Todblog gets practical about Utopia. JAM TODAY promotes personal autonomy through cuisine. And ASK WENDY CALLS FOR ACTIVIST FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. It had to happen.
This month’s photograph is by Hugh O’Conor.
Next month: FAMILIES issue appears 15 October.
got poetry? email Harvey L. got popular culture? email Mike. got music? email Max. got philosophy? got digital shorts? email Harvey H. got anything else? email Tod.
want to get on the Exterminating Angel Press mailing list? send us your email…
WELCOME BACK…