Backwards City Review. bi-a. $10. Ed: Gerry Canavan & others. PO Box 41317, Greensboro, NC 27404-1317; www.backwardscity.net. Backwards City Review (BCR) is published out of Greensboro, NC, but don't hold that against it. A flawless mix of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics—yes, comics—turns this beautiful new journal into a literary gem. With poets Marcus Slease and Erica Bernheim, short story writers Adam Berlin and Alix Ohlin, and artists Tom Chalkley (see "Heat Wave") and Jim Rugg gracing its pages, BCR's first issue easily surpasses most of the more established literary titles at the local Barnes & Noble. Public and academic libraries are advised to get BCR while it's hot.

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