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First of the Year: 2009: v. 2
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Part I: Home Is Where We StartDennis Myers ? Winter LightIrving Louis Horowitz ? A Child's Vision of the Great DepressionRoxane Beth Johnson ? The Prose of the WorldTom DeMott ? Manilow or MonkJudy Oppenheimer ? Showing OutMark Rudd ? Something About CompassionBenj DeMott ? Between Two SmilesUri Avnery ? The Boss Has Gone MadPaul Berman ? Rational ExuberanceFredric Smoler ? Two NationsMike Rose ? Everyday People in Never-Never LandNatalie Estrellita ? Anguish As A Second LanguageNatalie Estrellita ? Touch MeAlison Stone ? The LoversBongani Madondo ? Makeba in MemoriamBen Kessler ? R. Kelly's Political GiftArmond White ? Springsteen's Magic RealismDavid Golding ? God Stretch America: James Baldwin & Barack ObamaBenjamin DeMott ? The Uses of James BaldwinSamba Gadjigo ? All Sweat: Ousmane Sembene on Art/LifeFirst of the Month ? Radical History ChannelI Had a Dream ? Joe Richey 96Judy Oppenheimer ? Tight Connection 101Part II: First Draft of History IIAmiri Baraka ? You Gotta MoveWesley Hogan ? Warm Regards & Power ChordsTy Geltmaker ? My February EpiphanyBenj DeMott ? Cross the Border, Close the GapBen Kessler ? Stuff White People LikeJudy Oppenheimer ? Orpheus DescendingStephan Talty ? Buffalo's Black and White BallMike Rose ? School's Out for the G.O.P.Judy Oppenheimer ? FeelingsWesley Hogan & Dirk Philipsen ? Notes from the State of VirginiaAmiri Baraka ? American JunkiesScott Spencer ? American Socialism 2.0Benj DeMott ? If Buddy Met PoppyDennis Myers ? Apocalypse Wow!Fredric Smoler ? Reality CheckDonna Gaines ? America AlcoholicaNatalie Estrellita ? Presidential HairTom Smucker ? Calvin and The RaptureDonna Gaines ? Living SoberAmiri Baraka ? We Are Already In The Future!Lawrence Goodwyn ? The Ground We Stand OnPart III: Guided TripsCharles O'Brien ? At Ease in AzaniaBongani Madondo ? South to a Very Old PlaceMichael Lydon ? A House of BooksBenj DeMott ? The Uses of Benjamin DeMottFredric Smoler ? Against the CurrentCharles O'Brien ? To Criticize the CriticBob Levin ? How I Became a Writer (Pt. 1)Philip Levine ? Shadow BoxingPeter Lamborn Wilson ? My Summer Vacation in AfghanistanNat Finkelstein ? Kandahar 1971Michael L. Schmicker ? Hem, Maugham and MeBruce Jackson ? David's ChoiceBob Levin ? Pariah-TimeArmond White ? Genius ? Not!Vincent G. Harding ? Midwiving a New AmericaPart IV: Last Call & ResponseCharles O'Brien ? Where Hope EndsRichard Torres ? WitnessContributors' Notes

About the Author

Benj DeMott has written for the City Sun, the Village Voice, and various academic journals. He's edited First of the Month, along with Charles O'Brien and Armond White, since 1998.

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-[W]e can go ahead and describe First as inheriting the legacy of the New York Intellectuals.... it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity.- -- Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

"[W]e can go ahead and describe First as inheriting the legacy of the New York Intellectuals.... it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity." -- Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

"[W]e can go ahead and describe "First" as inheriting the legacy of the New York Intellectuals.... it may be time to recognize and respect "First "for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity." -- Scott McLemee, "Inside Higher Ed"

"[W]e can go ahead and describe "First" as inheriting the legacy of the New York Intellectuals.... it may be time to recognize and respect "First "for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity." -- Scott McLemee, "Inside Higher Ed"

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