Open City #16

Open City Magazine #16

by Daniel Pinchbeck, Rick Rofihe, Dana Goodyear

Open City features today's best new fiction, poetry, and artwork -- by both emerging and established talents. Past issues have featured Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, acclaimed anthropologist Michael Taussig, and Irvine Welsh's debut U.S. publication. Deborah Garrison, Joyce Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, David Foster Wallace, Terry Southern, and Rick Moody have also graced Open City's pages. Known for launching the careers of a dynamic range of new writers, Open City presents a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making. Open City #16 includes stories by Alicia Erian, Ryan Kenealy, Michiko Okubo, and Nico Baumbach, art by Louise Belcourt, Roe Ethridge, and Amy Hill, and poetry by David Berman. "Open City showcases the literature of tomorrow today." -- Los Angeles Times "Intelligent and accessible ... a hip, urban aesthetic." -- Poets and Writers "Open City takes the old literary magazine format and revitalizes it for a new generation's tastes." -- Library Journal "Ambitiously highbrow." -- The New York Times "An athletic balance of hipster glamour and highbrow esoterica." -- The Village Voice

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2002

About the author

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, and Notes from the Edge Times. He is a co-founder of the web magazine Reality Sandwich and of the website Evolver.net, and edited the North Atlantic Books publishing imprint Evolver Editions. He was featured in the 2010 documentary 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. He is the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki.

Reviews

[Holly Interlandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The volume that made me fall in love.

[Rick Rofihe · Rating 5 out of 5]

L. A. Times: “Open City showcases the literature of tomorrow today.”