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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6
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NEW AND OF INTEREST
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An Interview With Writer and Publisher Thomas Farber Page 4
Zombie is the New Undead Page 11
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Children’s Book Week Expanded Section Pages 13-19
Betcha Can … Men Can Write Believable Female Characters Page 20
More than just a big party By Steven T. Jones CCC Publishing, $17.95, 312 pages
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Burning Man, the xeric bacchanal held annually in Nevada, turned 25 last year. Improbably surviving its early years, the counter-cultural art festival and social experiment overcame the legal and logistical challenges of its tumultuous teens and has finally matured into relative tranquility. But, like any modern twenty-something might ask in an introspective moment – I’ve arrived, but so what? Steven Jones tackles this question is his book, The Tribes of Burning Man. Jones doesn’t hide his belief – and hope – that the
event is changing the American counterculture. Don’t worry if you’ve never been; Jones gives a thorough description of daily life on the playa. The meat of the book, however, is a year-by-year look at the event from 2004 through 2010. He chronicles the familiar (La Contessa, Paul Addis, Borg2, and of course the obligatory quotes from Larry Harvey), but comes into his own relating lesser-known stories, such as the role of a large-scale sound camps, or the stresses of conceiving and executing big art projects. See TRIBES, cont’d on page 7
Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps Page 25
Festivus for the Restivus Page 29
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