Essay

For twenty-six years Chicagoan Mike Royko has written the best doggone daily essay column in America. Along the way he's discovered the strange, the unusual, and the truth. So now meet his creation, Dr. I. M. Kookie, who thinks the world is just one big madhouse. Mike Royko thinks so too, but his remedy is to laugh.* *Abstract taken from back cover

Writers' Block: Stories from the Inside, a 36-page zine, is a compilation of deeply personal narratives, visceral creative writing and provocative scholarly essay taken from Beyondmedia's Women and Prison website. *

Two essays by Dodie Bellamy, the first written for the panel "Intimate Revolt: Recognizing Liberatory Forms of Documentary and Life Writing" at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago and the second for the Graduate Lecture Series at California College of the Arts.

This issue contributes articles that discuss philosophy figures such as Foucault and Freud along with artists such as Andy Warhol.