Issue #4 of The Lifted Brow is out from far Australia, featuring four (4) Open Letters contributors in its roster. Poetry editor John Cotter, contributing editor Adam Golaski, and poets Jen Knox Transporter 2 release

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Blood Work movie full and Caren Beilin share new work alongside lions like Brian Evenson, Heidi Julavits, Rick Moody, and Jim Shepard. There are two CDs included in the $27 book, pressed with 40 pieces by 40 performers (including The Wrens, the eerie Dan Deacon, and a pop song by, of all people, Neil Gaiman).

Editor Ronnie Scott designed the book’s hundred-odd stories and songs around a real fake bookshelf which had previously distinguished a hairdresser called Control HQ in Brisbane, Queensland:

The fake bookshelf is a deep-looking piece of wood. It’s painted deeply black. But as you aproach, you realise that the pice of wood is flat, and the books are merely spines, which have been pruned from complete books and wrapped around lengths of foam.

The X Files release He copied down the unlikely titles on that shelf (titles like “Sound of Murder” and “The Pain of Winning” and “Portrait of Maud”) and assigned each to a different cartoonist, musician, or storywriter.

Jennifer L. Knox makes “All Her Dreams” about the magical illusions of a crappy intervention … Caren Beilin turns “Wherever Lynn Goes” into a weird waterscape of, among other implements, “a giant sculpture of scissors, which is padded with the area’s endemic, electric moss, its blades dripping with damp life, the green hairs of waves” … In Adam Golaski’s gentle “A Rainbow Summer,” a lonely boy is told the story of Noah’s Ark, whose builder, surprisingly, does not tire of eating fish … and John Cotter draws “Cristobel,” and invents of it the history of a Mexican zombie film which is neither a zombie film, nor Mexican … Sideways dvdrip It’s a packed, portable, and very pretty book, and Open Letters offers its warm congratulations to all its makers. You can get yours here~ Untamed Heart on dvd Blink ipod The Born Losers film The Thirty Nine Steps ipod