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December 2004 in Black Lamb

All Christmas Issue, Volume 2, Number 12 — December 2004

December 1st, 2004

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In this seasonal issue, Editor Terry Ross tells a Christmas story of life at the railroad. In our page 2 feature, Sensory Overload, Michele Gendelman tells how at her house Christmas and Chanukah go hand in hand. In First and Last Christmas, Lorentz Lossius remembers a bittersweet celebration when he was a boy in Norway. Although It’s Just Christmas, Cate Garrison says there’s no denying the spirit of the season. Andrew Darrel, in Angelus ad Virginem, finds that as he’s gotten older, what Christmas has lost in intensity it has made up for in duration.

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September 2003 in Black Lamb

Volume 1, Number 9 — September 2003

September 1st, 2003

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The All-Movie Issue

In this special issue in which the Black Lamb writers are asked to recall life-changing films, Terry Ross remembers those snuggly drive-ins when he was a callow teenager (I Didn’t Lose It at the Movies). In our page 2 feature, Magnificent Perfection, Cate Garrison nominates her best movie of all time: The Magnificent Seven. In The Thing Is… Michele Gendelman documents the horror of the first mainstream movie to depict the arrival of extra-terrestrial life on earth. Stephen Starbuck salutes the oozey creepiness of Alien in Illiberal Aliens. In Trial by Fire, Gillian Wilce recalls the shattering first movie she even saw, at the age of three: Bambi.

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June 2003 in Black Lamb

Volume 1, Number 6 — March 2003

June 1st, 2003

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The All-Book Issue

In this, our first All-Book Issue, Editor Terry Ross describes how close this came to being a (shudder!) All James Michener Issue. In our page 2 feature, Wondrous Land, Cate Garrison pays homage to Lewis Carroll. D.K. Holm celebrates the film critic Robin Wood. In Memorable Miss Osborne, Grant Menzies remembers the first book that made him cry. Jim Patton (Mighty Marcel) claims that Proust is the all-time best. In The Man Who Couldn’t Think Straight, Greg Roberts takes Henry David Thoreau to task.

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