Dear Friends, Due to unfortunate considerations of time and cost, Backwards City is no longer a print journal. However, we will maintain our presence on the web that, however meager, we hope you might enjoy.
FCUK IT: The Word Game. Just like Tetris, only with Dick Cheney's favorite word. Space rotates, mouse button places.
Salon is reviewing a new biography of Jorge Louis Borges. They're right that people don't talk much about Borges anymore; the only time you ever hear people say the name at all is in a subtly manipulative effort to get Jaimee to say "Jorge Borges."
But he's got great stories. The guy's practically Mayor Emeritus of Backwards City, if you want to know the truth. We've got him on ice in the back somewhere.
(Sidebar: The professor of that class was one of the absolute best I had in college: Dr. John Barberet, who ran the classes on Castaway Literature and Utopia Literature. Case Western didn't give him tenure, because as far as I can see they don't care very much about making the humanities side of the school successful. Great teacher, though, and a bleeding-heart, old-school socialist, which you've got to respect. He's at UCF now, faculty advisor for the school's chapter of NORML, apparently. Shine on, you crazy diamond.)