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This month in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 7 — July 2008

July 1st, 2008

The All-Psychology Issue

This All-Psychology Issue starts with the description of an insidious condition afflicting millions: Lost World Syndrome. In our page 2 feature, Stupid & Psyche, Cervine Kauffman urges women not to become emotional cripples. Rebecca Owen proposes an exciting new television program in You heard it here first! In Oogy boogly witch doctors Greg Roberts contends that the discipline of psychology has not produced anything worth thinking about.

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Last month in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 6 — June 2008

June 1st, 2008

In our the cover story Greg Roberts (The Last Restaurant) describes the end of dining out in America. Rebecca Owen, in our p. 2 feature (Her own version), tells how her mother dealt with the truth. Gillian Wilce (p. 3) reflects on leaving home for foreign countries (Here & There). Elizabeth Hart (p. 3) remembers when she came face to face with Joni Mitchell and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (Both sides now). Leslie Russell (Time out, p. 4) advocates taking time when you can.

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Volume 6, Number 5 — May 2008

May 1st, 2008

The Black Lamb Review of Books

In our the cover story of our third annual Black Lamb Review of Books, Editor Terry Ross summarizes a rich issue focusing on biography and contends that travel books can often be considered biographical. In A beautiful mind Rebecca Owen appreciates mathematician G.H. Hardy’s elegant little apologia. William Bogert remembers seeing the late William F. Buckley, Jr. in action in An extraordinary man. Gillian Wilce characterizes polymath Alan Bennett’s Untold stories as a Box of delights.

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April 2008 in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 4 — April 2008

April 1st, 2008

In our cover story, Familiar music, Cate Garrison tells of a friend who discovered late in life that she was Jewish and had two brothers. In Quixotic chocoatl, Leslie Russell uses our page 2 feature spot to wax eloquent on New World ambrosia. After a horrible school shooting in the U.S., Dan Peterson tells why such things don’t happen in Italy in School violence.

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March 2008 in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 3 — March 2008

March 1st, 2008

The All-Lies Issue

In our cover story, Terry Ross admits to having been a liar and wonders if lying is not intrinsic in human expression. In our page 2 feature, The real thing, Leslie Russell extols the humble grandeur of real food. Our Country Lawyer, Bud Gardner, muses on how difficult it is to determine the truth. In The whole truth, Elizabeth Hart remembers little lies she told when a child. Cervine Kauffman, in The frugal truth, lists a number of surprisingly common and banal lies. Cate Garrison wonders Why? anyone bothers to lie. In Tulip-trading fools, Greg Roberts exposes the lie of modern art’s value. Dean Suess says, in A question of survival, that if a penitentiary prison’s mouth is moving, is is assumed he is lying.

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February 2008 in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 2 — February 2008

February 1st, 2008

In our cover story, Guatemala mon amour, Rebecca Owen offers a wistful appreciation of a troubled Central American country. Ed Goldberg, in our page 2 feature After the war, sets the record straight on abused American veterans. Dan Peterson reflects on a romantic occasion in Italy in Valentine’s Day. In Blonde, prefers gentlemen, Lorentz Lossius reunites with a beloved canine friend. Greg Roberts holds forth on the horrid situation for professional musicians in Hangin’ with Ed Gein.

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January 2008 in Black Lamb

Volume 6, Number 1 — January 2008

January 1st, 2008

In our cover story, Pelicans & roses, Rosemary McLeish offers Black Lamb a fifth anniversary present. In our page 2 feature, Dreams of avarice, Claire McLaughlin reflects on the work of British artist Damien Hirst. In Hearing the Farmer, Ed Goldberg indulges his lifelong interest in the sources of stories. Gillian Wilce muses on homes she didn’t choose in Houses not lived in. Travelling in Kurdish Turkey, Lorentz Lossius describes a long voyage in Night train. Writing from Italy, Dan Peterson admits to a serious gaffe in Coach screws up.

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December 2007 in Black Lamb

Volume 5, Number 12 — December 2007

December 1st, 2007

In this, our largest issue ever, John Vergin tells a tale of Christmas in a small town in A Christmas Story. In our page 2 feature, Rebecca Owen reflects on the joys of pet ownership in Man’s Best Friend. A Spoiled Christmas tells why Cate Garrison’s holiday will be tainted by an evil man.

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October-November 2007 in Black Lamb

Volume 5, Numbers 10-11, October-November 2007

October 1st, 2007

The All Suburbia Issue

In our cover story, Terry Ross muses on what constitutes a suburb and remembers how many important things were absent from the suburban home of his youth. In our page 2 feature, Frankly Snobbish, Cate Garrison recalls how difficult it was for her to feel creative in suburbia. Gillian Wilce wonders whether suburbia is a state of mind in Not Suitable for Sidcup. City boy Ed Goldberg recalls his own youth in suburban Long Island in Train to Nowhere. In Norway, Lorentz Lossius goes Fishing in Suburbia.

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September 2007 in Black Lamb

Volume 5, Number 9 — September 2007

September 1st, 2007

In our cover story, In Memoriam Beverly Sills, David Maclaine pays tribute to the opera star. In Our page 2 feature, Who’s Minding the Store?, Cervine Kauffman wonders why people who work in groceries know nothing about groceries. Lorentz Lossius discovers his ancestors in the small Norwegian town of Røros. A fatal accident is taken in stride in Rebecca Owen’s Stroke of Fate.

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