Brick: A Literary Journal, Summer 2011 Brick, #87)

by Michael Redhill (Editor), Linda Spalding (Contributing Editor), Michael Ondaatje (Contributing Editor)

In its 25-year history, Brick has grown from a grassroots magazine to one of the most respected literary journals in the world. Focused on literary nonfiction of various genres and subjects -- the writing life, travel, film, memoir, interviews with writers, and excerpts from their works -- Brick is an ongoing conversation between readers and writers. Included in this issue are:
Juan Gabriel Vásquez takes on a literary tradition
Colum McCann & Chandran Madhu hurry hard in Latin
Don Paterson’s hidden talent
Eric Karpeles on Elizabeth Bishop’s portrait
Marian Botsford Fraser on Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel
Alissa Valles on pain and writing
Aleksander Wat’s diary
Zbigniew Herbert on Sigmund Freud
Pete Najarian’s music memoir
Anthony Milosz meets Leonor Fini’s cats
Christine Pountney confesses
Jim Harrison on the lessons of pain
Stories by Czeslaw Milosz, Annie Russell, and Jeff Walker
Poetry by Sharon Olds, Ken Babstock, Christopher Reid, Robin Robertson, and Czeslaw Milosz
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Edmund de Waal
James Salter talks to Kevin Rabalais
Karen Solie in conversation with Ken Babstock
Joseph Brodsky talks to Sam Solecki

Paperback

Published June 1, 2011

About the author

Aka Inger Ash Wolfe.

Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Redhill was raised in the metropolitan Toronto, Ontario area. He pursued one year of study at Indiana University, and then returned to Canada, completing his education at York University and the University of Toronto. He was on the editorial board of Coach House Press from 1993 to 1996, and is currently the publisher and editor of the Canadian literary magazine Brick.

His play, Building Jerusalem, depicts a meeting between Karl Pearson, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Adelaide Hoodless, and Silas Tertius Rand on New Year's Eve night just prior to the 20th century.