Best Intentions
A review by Sheila Ashdown
In the fly-by-night world of zines, longevity is an admirable trait. Keith Rosson's Avow, started in 1995 and still going strong at issue #23, is one such long-running and much-admired DIY venture. The Best of Intentions: The Avow Anthology, now in its second edition, collects issues #11 through #16 in their entirety, plus snippets of the first 10 issues and a scrapbook. Though The Best of Intentions is a hodgepodge of stories, poems, interviews, illustrations, found art, and more, Rosson's memoirs are clearly the strongest element. Here, a wide sampling of subjects -- art, music, childhood, love, friendship -- are filtered through Rosson's thoughtful and self-deprecating sensibility and rendered in his precise, evocative prose. Rosson is particularly adept at taking the reader inside an experience even when he feels like an outsider. One such piece is "Would You Like Some Cheese and Beer with That Wine?" Here, Rosson ruminates on art openings (he is also a painter) as an event...
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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
by Patrick Dennis
Notable American Women
by Ben Marcus
Straight Man: A Novel
by Richard Russo
The Lecturer's Tale
by James Hynes
Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs
by John Bowe and Marisa Bowe
Flophouse : Life on the Bowery (00 Edition)
by David / Abramson, Stacy Isay
Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
by David Sterry
Lucky Us
by Joan Silber
The Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
by Mark Kram
A Way of Life, Like Any Other
by Darcy O'brien
America's Idea of a Good Time
by Kate Schermerhorn
The Tax Inspector
by Peter Carey
Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)
by Lawrence Block
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
by Truman Capote
Conversations with Wilder
by Cameron Crowe
When We Were Orphans (Vintage International)
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Stories of Paul Bowles
by Paul Bowles
Facing New York
by Bruce Gilden
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events (A Series of Unfortunate Events #01)
by Lemony Snicket
Dogwalker: Stories
by Arthur Bradford
The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
by Aaron McGruder
Landor's Tower
by Iain Sinclair
Before I Say Goodbye: Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year
by Ruth Picardie
Carter Beats the Devil
by Glen David Gold
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
About the Author
by John Colapinto
America the Beautiful
by Moon Unit Zappa
Jack Cole & Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
by Art Spiegelman
Among the Missing
by Dan Chaon
Pretty Things
by Susan Compo
Rise to Rebellion
by Jeff Shaara
True Enough
by Stephen Mccauley
Ill Nature
by Joy Williams
Under the Skin
by Michel Faber
Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
After Dark, My Sweet (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Jim Thompson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Motley Crue
The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
John Henry Days
by Colson Whitehead
The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories
by John Biguenet
Observatory Mansions
by Edward Carey
Off the Eaten Path: Inspired Recipes for Adventurous Cooks
by Bob Blumer
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
by David Halberstam
Rising Tide (97 Edition)
by John M. Barry
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