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Issue 15: Americana, pt. II

August 2014

Jaws (1975) | art by Brianna Ashby

It’s Only An Island If You Look At It From The Water

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.
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American Movie | art by Brianna Ashby

But That’s What Happened, Man.

Tess Lynch·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
When I first saw American Movie, I was working at a vintage clothing store and blithely guzzling vodka sodas until four in the morning; I had recently graduated from college and had plenty of time to land myself in a 30 Under 30 list or apply to graduate school. There were no failures yet, only promise.
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | art by Brianna Ashby

We’ll Jump and We’ll See

Chad Perman·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
Joe Versus the Volcano is a film that lives almost entirely in its own world, asking Big Questions about Big Things—but its heart is large, and its magic deep.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Surviving North by Northwest

Erika Schmidt·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
So you’re on the run. The bad news: you’re being pursued by both international spies and by the American police....
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What Happened to You is Freak Luck

Bebe Ballroom·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
o one ever told me how beautiful Sylvester Stallone was in 1976. Sunken-in eyes, almost able to make out the...
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Home is Where I Wanna Be

Andrew Root·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
In An American Tail, America takes on a mythic energy; it is the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail and armour of Achilles. It is fulfillment, deliverance from trial, protection from evil. It is happiness and it is home.
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And Not to Yield

Summer Block·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
Three escaped convicts and a young man who claims to have sold his soul to the Devil arrive at a...
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It’s Not Personal

Katie Zimolzak·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
“…only a half dozen Puritan millionaires stood on the wharf in the wind colder than the impossible snows of the...
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Brianna Ashby·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
Memory is a gift that allows us to carry pieces of the ones we love with us, wherever we go.
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I’ve Never Been Much Good

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
My name is a flag. Big things. I was born inside a parade, my teeth biting down on ridges of...
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