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A Story Born in the Healing Garden: Briana Loewinsohn’s Ephemera

From Rat’s Notebook: Dylan’s Mixing Up the Medicine Writes An Incredible Journey

Dylan Roundup: Complete Budokan 1978Bootleg Series Vol. 17; Terri Thal’s My Greenwich Village

October Spotlight: The Corporate Sabotage of America’s Future Calls Out Big Oil

September Spotlight: Blood In the Tracks Recognizes the Six Musicians Behind Dylan’s Classic

In the Spotlight: Dylan In Minnesota Offers New Insights On the North Star State’s Favorite Son

National Poetry Month 2023: “Blood Shine”

November Poetry Spotlight: “Music Man”

November Spotlight: Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song On The Music That Drives Us

September Pick of the Month: Reborn Looks Past Bitter Unknowns To A New Beginning

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Faces From Indian Country

National Poetry Month Spotlight: The Collected Works of Jim Morrison, Revisiting W.B. Yeats

February Spotlight: Baughman’s An Old Man Remembering Birds Takes Us On A Powerful Journey

January Spotlight: Writer Michael Baughman Reviews John Aiello’s Hymns To the Night Road

Buy It Now: John Aiello’s First Book of Poems Now On Sale

January Poetry Spotlight: A New Poem From John Aiello on Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish

October Spotlight: Bob Dylan’s Springtime In New York: 1980-1985

July Spotlight: An Interview With City Lights & Michael McClure Editor Garrett Caples

June Spotlight: John Aiello Writes On Michael McClure’s Last Book, Mule Kick Blues

May 2021 Spotlight: Zepp Jamieson On the Link Between Joseph Heller & Joe Abercrombie

National Poetry Month: “Scarlet In the Moonlight”

March Spotlight: Bob Dylan 1970

February Spotlight: An Interview With Allen Ginsberg Biographer Michael Schumacher

January Spotlight: Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America Journals

December Spotlight: Claudia McMahon Reflects On Her Legendary Father & The Tonight Show

November Spotlight: An Interview With Actress & Healing Arts Author Karen Lorre

October Music Spotlight: An Interview With Mary Ramsey of 10,000 Maniacs

September Music Spotlight: Emma Swift’s Stunning New Collection Of Dylan Covers

September Poetry Spotlight: “Chain of Ghosts”

August Spotlight: John Aiello’s A Higher Calling Tells the Story of the San Mateo County Courts

July Poetry Spotlight: “Sheriff As Historian”

June Spotlight: Bob Dylan’s Looking Glass & His Rough & Rowdy Ways

Poetry: Meditations On Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”

May Spotlight: Appointments With Destiny: An Interview With Violinist Scarlet Rivera

May Poetry Spotlight: In Memoriam: Michael McClure

December Spotlight: Bob Kaufman’s Collected Works, Allen Ginsberg’s South American Journals

November Spotlight: Travelin’ Thru Showcases 1969 Dylan & Cash Sessions, Plus Tarantula In Audio

October Spotlight: Bob Dylan At the Isle of Wight, Rabbit’s Blues & Clarence Clemons On DVD

Guest Review: Zepp Jamieson Spotlights the New Lana del Rey Album

Artist Profile: An Interview With Dylan & Me Author Louie Kemp

September Spotlight: Louie Kemp’s Memoir Reveals A New Side of Bob Dylan

August Spotlight: Woodstock Turns 50, Plus the Psychology Behind Black Panther

July Spotlight: Celeste Norfleet’s One Night In Georgia Brings A New Face To the Road Novel

June Spotlight: Rolling Thunder Revue Documentary & Box Celebrate Grandeur of Rock’s Boldest Tour

Poetry: Meditations On The Rolling Thunder Review: “Mirrors Exorcising Demons”

In the Spotlight: Guthrie Tribute Concert Celebrates One of American Music’s Forgotten Influences

Guest Review: In the Afterglow: HBO’s Chernobyl

From Rat’s Notebook: Mother’s Day With the San Francisco Giants Builds Cancer Awareness

May Spotlight: Eric Topol’s Deep Medicine Looks To Change the Way Healthcare Is Delivered

In the Spotlight: May Quick Picks In Fiction & Nonfiction

In the Spotlight: Gina Marie Guadagnino’s The Parting Glass Brings Old New York Roaring To Life

From Rat’s Notebook: “First Person View”

National Poetry Month: Spotlighting Chicago Poet Nancy Botta

National Poetry Month: Five Poems From John Aiello Celebrate National Poetry Month 2019

Spotlight On Audio: Penguin-Random House Celebrates Spring With New Toni Morrison & More

April Spotlight: Amor Towles’ Super-Seller A Gentleman In Moscow Now In Paperback

Poetry: John Aiello Celebrates Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday With Two Poems

Artist Spotlight: Private Testimonies (All Roads Lead To Dylan)

Guest Review: David Keck’s A King In Cobwebs

March Spotlight: Macmillan Audio Brings Back the Legend of “Wild Bill” Hickok

February Reference Spotlight: Benchmark Resources From Cengage In Law, Nursing & Photography

From Rat’s Notebook: Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals

February Spotlight: Heart Disease Not Just About Men Anymore

January Spotlight On Audio: Self-Motivation, Prayers of the Mitford Series, Presidents of War

January Spotlight: The History of the Beats In Pictures

January Spotlight On Audio: Self-Motivation; the Prayers of the Mitford Series; Presidents of War

Gifts: The Electric Review’s 2018 Gift Basket Overflows in Sci-Fi, Rock & Roll, Dickens & Self-Help

December Spotlight: Bob Dylan Live 1962-66 Offers A Snapshot of the Poet Recast As Orator

Artist Profile: Who Is Appleseed Recordings? 15 Minutes With President & Founder Jim Musselman

Music Spotlight: Appleseed’s Roots & Branches: How Folk Changed the American Musical Landscape

Guest Review: Buster Scruggs Puts the Best of the Coen Brothers On Display

November Spotlight: More Blood, More Tracks Revisits Love & Loss In Bob Dylan’s Most Private Story

Poetry: A Meditation On Blood On The Tracks: “Hymns To the Repetition Wheel”

Artist Profile: “Some of the Many Faces of Bob Dylan,” Featuring Original Drawings By Eric Ward

Music Spotlight: Steven Graves’ How Long

November Audio Spotlight: Featuring New Selections On Trump & Russia and American Prisons

November Nonfiction Spotlight: How To Survive In An Age of Bullshit

Guest Review: Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil

Guest Review: Godless Recreates the Western In Stunning Fashion

Audio Spotlight: Ann Coulter Challenges the Liberal Contingent, David Lynch In His Own Words

Artist Profile: New Art From Eric Ward Mourns the Numbing of A Culture

September Spotlight: Joe Hagan’s Sticky Fingers Tells the Story of Rolling Stone Magazine

August Spotlight: The Good Mothers Take On Calabria’s Criminal Empire

July Spotlight: New Bukowski, Keith Gessen’s Terrible Country, Gregory Crouch’s Bonanza King

The Summer Cengage Reference Shelf: New In Medicine, Law & Legal Studies and Tech & Trade

Guest Review: Michael Moreci’s The Throw Away

Film Sequels Worth A Second Look: Incredibles 2 and Kobra Kai

July Spotlight On Audio: Lifestyle Changes To Fight Cancer & Real Answers On How Trump Won

In the Spotlight: Snapshots On the Penguin Classics

July Spotlight: New From Macmillan Audio

In the Spotlight: Laura Smith’s The Art of Vanishing Forces You To Question Your Core

June Spotlight: Gear’s This Scorched Earth Destined To Become A Classic

From Rat’s Notebook: The San Francisco Giants & Until There’s A Cure, 25 Years Later

Spotlight On Audio: Hot Summer Fiction From Penguin-Random House Audio

May Spotlight: Vegan Recipes For Every Occasion

Spotlight On Fiction: The Night Dahlia Features R.S. Belcher At His Best

Celebrating National Poetry Month: Bob Dylan’s The Nobel Lecture Released In Hardcover

John Aiello Writes In Celebration of National Poetry Month: “Poem Flowers”

April Fiction: Eric Jerome Dickey Blends Danger & Sensuality In His Latest Thriller

Spotlight On Audio: The Science of Timing, Diet Versus Metabolism & More

Guest Review: Bobby BlueJacket Mixes Crime & Politics In Compelling Fashion

Spotlight On Audio: Baldwin’s Trump, When Things Fall Apart

Guest Review: The Sustainable City

Spotlight On Science Fiction: Thoraiya Dyer’s Titan’s Forest Series

From Rat’s Notebook: Remembering Seminal Bluesman Brownie McGhee During Black History Month

Spotlight On Poetry: Michael McClure’s Voice of the Animal Self

Spotlight On Reference: New This Term From Elsevier

Spotlight On Reference: Echocardiography & Valvular Heart Disease From Dr. Catherine Otto

New Reference Texts In Cardiology & Wilderness Medicine

Advancements In Heart & Kidney Transplants in Rat On Reference

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Elsevier Interventions
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4 comments on “In This Issue:

  1. The redesigned website looks terrific. Well done! – Denise

    • Jacob Aiello
      August 6, 2013

      Thank you, Denise!

  2. tony burrell
    December 16, 2014

    Hi John, deepcoast14@yahoo.com Thanks

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