NEW LISTINGS
Volcanoes,
Route 66, and
Photographs of America, 1935 - 1943

REVIEWS
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Victor Serge
Part I
"In his official journalist's rôle
Serge knew everyone, seemed to be
part of all the important events
of the early years of the Revolution.
His dozens of vignettes of the principals ---
not just the Trotskys and the Lenins ---
but of the many other participants ---
are gripping, often funny, sometimes sad."
Part II
"The Party that was excommunicating, imprisoning,
and beginning to murder us,
remained our Party,
and we still owed everything to it:
we must live only for it,
since only through it could we serve the Revolution.
We were defeated by Party patriotism:
it both provoked us to rebel
and turned us against ourselves."

Jean Genet
"Why do murderers,
when they write,
almost always give
descriptions of themselves,
of their acts,
or of their imaginary acts,
that sound like
First Communion?"

Great Reviews of the Past
Chump Change
"There's boozing and stealing cars and
boozing and picking up whores and
boozing and attempted suicides and
boozing and fighting with the family and
snorting coke and blacking out on smarmy motel rooms and
upchuck and dog-shit in the back seat and
trashing cars and putting unmentionable things
in women's purses."

BRIEF REVIEWS
God's Mountain,
Bugs, Bites and Bowels, and
Christopher Reeve's Still Me