Andrei Codrescu

Codrescu won the 1970 Prize Winner in The Big Table Series of Younger Poets. The poems are divided into three sections, written by three separate authors, created by Codrescu. Codrescu calls the book "a novel, really: the story of three characters getting ready to rejoin the planet."

"In a society where the death of the printed word is heralded daily, writers will stop at nothing to gain an audience. A Brief History of Authoterrorism is the first definitive text to chronicle a trend that cannot be ignored; see just how far writers and artists will go to promote themselves in a world where laws of decorum no longer apply. This is the fine line between fiction and fact, art and apocalypse…"

Stop Smiling Magazine bills itself as "the magazine for high minded lowlifes." This issue focuses on The South and has articles about Stax Records, Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, and Luther Ingram.