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Franetta McMillian
The Last of Our Kind #1

I want to add how cool it is that Bob Holman’s publicity photo in this issue was taken by the fabulous Tony Powell. I used to run into him in the early 90s around 2am when we’d both be assembling projects at the photocopy place on Hampden Lane in Bethesda. Tony is a shooting star, and now snaps red carpet events, glam parties, GQ pix, and so much more.

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“Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.”
–Adrienne Rich

“No day without a line.”
–Pliny the Elder

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
—Toni Morrison

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness—and our ability to tell our own stories.
—Arundhati Roy

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
–Franz Kafka

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Staring at my laptop screen makes me better at thinking. Even thinking about writing makes me better at thinking. And when I’m thinking well, I can sometimes write that rare rare sentence or paragraph that feels exactly right. . . .”
—Elisa Gabbert

“I don’t like work . . . but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—which no other man can ever know.”
—Joseph Conrad

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
—Blaise Pascal

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
—Richard Wright

“You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every sentence.”
—Elif Batuman

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
—Kahlil Gibran

”The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality.”
–Henry Miller

“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”
— Grace Paley

“If you’re writing, you’re a writer.”
— Neil Gaiman

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Pierre Alféri

John Bailey

Radcliffe Bailey

Maxie Baughan

Carla Bley

Fernando Botero

Paul Brodeur

Angelo Bruschini

Jimmy Buffett

Nancy Buirski

Dick Butkus

A.S. Byatt

Richard Davis

Alice Denney

Jillian Ann Durgin

Elliott Erwitt

Sharon Farrell

Dianne Feinstein

Ian Ferrier

David Ferry

Larry Fink

William Friedkin

Michael Gambon

Annabel Giles

Louise Gluck

Brian Godding

Herbert Gold

Edith Grossman

Ray Hildebrand

Mary Crockett Hill

Frank Howard

Tina Howe

Gayle Hunnicutt

David LaFlamme

Denny Laine

Janet Langard

Piper Laurie

Norman Lear

Eddie Linden

Shane MacGowan

John Marshall

David McCallum

Louise Meriwether

Barry Newman

Richard Moll

John Nichols

Ed Ochester

Al Petteway

Claude Picasso

Robbie Robertson

Brooks Robinson

Sixto Rodriquez

Biff Rose

Richard Roundtree

Renata Scotto

Maureen Seaton

Aurelie Sheehan

Ignacio Solares

Arleen Sorkin

Dave Stenhouse

Frances Sternhagen

Alice Stuart

Dwight Twilley

Conny Van Dyke

Vassilis Vassilikos

Allan C. Weisbecker

Mars Williams

William Crawford Woods

Gary Wright

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last words

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# 7

Table of Contents

fiction

Poetry

Art

Nonfiction

Interview

Audio

Video

Special Thanks

last words

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