Welcome to The Bookpress, Upstate New York's newspaper of the literary arts. Each month, The Bookpress provides the best in criticism, fiction, poetry, and essays on a wide variety of topics, from literature and the arts to social and political issues of the day. We hope you enjoy the issue, and we welcome your comments and suggestions.

In This Issue:

Battle of the Books - by Edward T. Chase Poems - by Peggy Billings A Brief Review of Ted Hughes - by John Bowers Song of Herself - by Edward Dougherty St. Barths - by Gunilla Feigenbaum Poems - by Steve Friedman Dahab - by Louis Friedman Something Rotten in the State of Fiction - by Christopher Furst ABC's of Computer Learning - Letter to the Editor - by Gary Esolen and Valeri LeBlanc Red White and Blues - by Joseph A. Palermo The Case for Amistad - by Cushing Strout Pyramid Mall - by Deborah Tall

• Moosewood Restaurant - Dewitt Mall
• Picador Publishing 
• Doubleday Publishing
• Random House
• Sola Art Gallery - Contemporary Japanese Art - Dewitt Mall
• Cafe Dewitt- Dewitt Mall
• GreenStar Cooperative Market - "Organic food isn't an aisle, it's a philosophy"
• Ithaca Piano Rebuilders - 310 4th St., Ithaca, NY
• Ludgates Produce Farms - The Gourmet Farm Store
• Princeton University Press

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