Issue #149
www.ralphmag.org/EA/indexEA.html
Mid-Summer 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
Thirty-Three HitsThe Editors of RALPH [List --- Part I] The items in RALPH that Get the Most Hits
A Danish Photographer
of Idaho Indians:[B]
Benedicte Wrensted		 Joanna C. Scherer, Editor Oklahoma A Photographer from the Frontier ---
Early 1900s
The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin[B]		 Benjamin Franklin
Fredd Wayne, Reader 		Audio Partners A Reading of the Original American Autobiography
Black Farmers
In America[B]		 John Francis Ficara
Photographer		 University Press of Kentucky Original Photographs of the Now-Vanishing Black Independent Farmer
The Chocolate Soldier P. J. Mierly [Poem] AIDS and the Military
Gravity, Outer Space and Microsoft Word Dr. Phage [Article] Thoughts on Gravity, Disneyland, and Computer Programs
William Faulkner Javier Marías [Reading] The American Writer and the Death of a Daughter
The Story of My Life:[G]
The Restored Classic		 Helen Keller Norton The Famous Autobiography Recast
Golda Meir
Louise Gluck's
The Seven Ages		 WBH
Richard Malmed		 [Letters] Letters in Response to Previous Reviews in RALPH
Hiroyuki Itsuki "Tariki"
Fritz Wolff		 Patricia Dumond
Miriam Solon		 [More Letters] Additional Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Articles and Reviews
The Poem Death
George Washington and
Hessian Soldiers		 Toufic Arab
Steven Trimmer		 [Even More Letters] Additional Correspondence with RALPH
Meditation in a
New York Minute
Super Calm for
The Super Busy		 Mark Thornton Sounds True Fast Book on Quick Meditation Techniques
In Memory
of Hawks
And Other Stories
From Alaska		 Irving Warner Pleasure Boat Studio Short Stories from the Wild
The Coming
of Age
In Palo Alto		 Christine Hamm [Poem]Poetry about Young America
The Art of
Rockefeller Center*		 Christine Roussel Norton The Original Art in Rockefeller Center
The Woman
In the Row Behind		 Françoise Dorner Other Press Adultery in the Streets of Paris
Cottage Water Systems*
An Out-of-the-City
Guide To Pumps, Plumbing,
Water Purification, and Privies		 Max Burns Cottage Life Books Water for the Out-of-City Dweller
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #150
www.ralphmag.org/EB/indexEB.html
Late Summer 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
RALPH: The First 150 IssuesThe Editors of RALPH [List] The Most Characteristic Reviews, Poems, and Readings from the Last Twelve Years of RALPH
Keep Your God Waiting[B]
Dynamic Health and Great Sex		 Michael Coleman Trafford Pointers on How to Live to Age 120
City of Lights[B] Patrick Neate Riverhead Mystery of a Paki-Londoner
Tracking the Black Dog[B]
Fairy Tales and Historical Legwork
From the Black Dog Institute's
Writing Competitions		 Kerrie Eyers, Editor University of New South Wales Press The History of and Thoughts about Depression
Daughters of
The Vicar[B]		 D. H. Lawrence Hesperus One of Lawrence's Early Novels
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin[B]
Writers Running Wild
In the Twenties		 Marion Meade
Lorna Raver, Reader		 Blackstone Four of the most Important American Women Writers of the '20s Revealed
A Reading Diary[B] Alberto Manguel Picador Writings about Reading
The Village Under the Sea[B] Mark Haddon Vintage Contemporary Poetry
The Rainbow Trail[B] Zane Grey
Michael Prichard,
Reader		 Tantor A Reading of the Famous Author's Novel of the Wild West
Beautiful Dreamer[B] Christopher Bigsby Thomas Dunne/St. Martins Racism and Violence in Tennessee in the Last Century
Nature-Friendly Garden
Creating a Backyard Haven for
Plants, Wildlife, and People		 Marlene A. Condon Stackpole A Garden for All Creatures Great and Small
Godbole's Song E. M. Forster [Reading] Music of India
The Condor and the Cows[G]
A South American Travel Diary		 Christopher Isherwood Minnesota Isherwood and Companion Traveling through South America
Baps
In Memory of Hawks		 ragie44@yahoo.com
Jack Estes		 [Letters] Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews
The Maori
Reynolds Price		 Clancy Greene
Ruth Deming		 [Letters] More Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews
The Mercy Room Gilles Rozier Little, Brown Novel about Life and Love (and Terror) in Vichy France
A Passage to India* E. M. Forster
Sam Dastor,
Reader		 Audio Partners A Reading of the Classic Story of the Raj in India
An Episode in
The Life of a
Landscape Painter*		 César Aria New Directions A Startling Novel about Johan Moritz Rugendas in Argentina
Don't Kidney Now L. W. Milam [Article] Living with a UTI in Mexico
Writers Nancy Crampton,
Photographer		 Quantuck Lane Press Photographs of 104 Famous Writers
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #151
www.ralphmag.org/EC/indexEC.html
Very Late Summer 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
The Russian Anarchists Paul Avrich AK Press Kropotkin, Bakunin, and the End of the Revolution
Written Lives[B]* Javier Marías New Directions Twenty-Six Writers Briefly Described ---
Joyce, Nabokov, Faulkner et al
The Cloud-Spotters Guide[B]
The Science, History, and
Culture of Clouds		 Gavin Pretor-Pinney Perigee A Young Person's Guide to the Nimbus
The Last Town
On Earth[B]		 Thomas Mullen Random House Modern American Novel
Viruses vs. Superbugs[B]
A Solution to the
Antibiotics Crisis?		 Thomas Häusler Macmillan A Solution for the
Disaster Awaiting from
Drug-Resistant Bugs
When I Was Elena[B] Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand Permanent Press A Peace Corps Volunteer
in Guatemala
Human Traces[B] Sebastian Faulks Random House A Novel about 19th Century Psychiatry
Wu Wei* Tom Crawford Milkweed Editions Contemporary Northwest Mystical (Albeit Realistic) Poetry
The Dead Cat:
Schrödinger's
Experiment		 A. Pablo Iannone [Reading] A Suicide Who Dies
(and Continues Living)
Now Let Us Praise
The Very Old
(And the Very
Detached) 		L. W. Milam [Article] The Old and All Their
Detached Retinas
Ringside Seat
To a Revolution
An Underground Cultural History of
El Paso and Juárez: 1893 to 1923		 David Dorado Romo Cinco Puntos Press El Paso and the Mexican Revolution
William Faulkner
Novels, 1926 - 1929:*
Flags in the Dust		 William Faulkner The Library of America A Complete Edition of the Author's Early Novel Sartoris
Arresting Time:
Erich Lessing*
Reportage Photographs
1948 - 1973		 Alastair Crawford, Editor Quantuck Lane Press/Norton 400 Photographs from Lessing's Works
The Nature-Friendly Garden and
Divine Intervention in the RALPH Mailroom		 Susan Wallis
Marlene A. Condon 		[Letters] Correspondence with RALPH about
Previous Reviews
Maori Moko

The Middle East Holy War

A Round-Heeled Woman

 Paula Guy
Larry Walsh
Liliana Komorowska Ahmed		 [More Letters] Further Correspondence with RALPH
about Previous Reviews
Letter to Dufu in Chengdu Tom Crawford [Even More Letters] Correspondence with the Master Poet
St Paul's Architecture
A History		 Jeffrey A. Hess
Paul Clifford Larson		 Minnesota A Look at Early St. Paul Buildings
Stiff:[G] The Curious Lives
Of Human Cadavers		 Mary Roach Norton What Really Happens to Us
When We Cack
The Eradication of Yellow Fever Jack McCallum [Reading] Leonard Wood and
the Spanish-American War
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #152
www.ralphmag.org/ED/indexED.html
Very Early Fall 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
The First Be-InEva Diaz [Reading] John Cage, Merce Cunningham,
and Other Radical Artists at Black Mountain
Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College
1933 - 1957		 Caroline Collier
Michael Harrison
Editors		 Kettle's Yard/
Arnolfini		 The World of Art at
Black Mountain College
The Practices of
The Six Yogas
Of Naropa[B]		 Glenn H. Mullin,
Translator		 Snow Lion Various Commentators on the
11th Century Buddhist Monk
Brooklyn Is[B]
Southeast of
the Island:
Travel Notes		 James Agee Fordham University Press The Writer Visits
Brooklyn, 1938
AA Gill Is Away* A. A. Gill Simon & Schuster The Famous Travel Writer in Africa, the Sudan, Japan, and Van Nuys
Courthouses of
Minnesota		 Mary Logue
Doug Ohman
Photographer		 Minnesota Historical Society County Courthouses and Appropriate Statues Investigated
Pornographia: A Matriarchal Society A. A. Gill [Reading] The Travel Writer
Makes a Nasty Film
Contemplating
Hell		 Berthold Brecht [Poem] The Dramatist/Writer
Explains Los Angeles 1946
Truth is a
Pathless Land		 J. Krishnamurti Sounds True CDs The Late Philosopher on
The Observer and the Observed
A Dead Cat
Blasphemers at RALPH		 Rachel Suarez
gjrogers55@spcbell.net		 [Letters] Response to Reviews and
Readings in RALPH
This Bloody Life zach strobeck [More Letters] Even More Responses to
Reviews and Readings
in RALPH
(CONTACT WITH THE DECEASED
(stepwise technique)) 		Michael Raduga [Even More Letters] Even more Responses to RA:PH's Reviews and Letters
Marshall McLuhan
Unbound		 Eric McLuhan
W. Terrence Gordon
Editors		 Ginko Press The Philosopher of Media
In Twenty Bound Folios
Publish and Perish:
Three Tales of
Tenure and Terror		 James Hynes Picador Novel about Wars at
Academic Conferences
Underground
Tour 		Dr. Phage [Article] The Perils of Home Plumbing (and Plumbers
J. Bruller's 21 Recettes Pratiques
de Mort Violente		 H. L. Mencken [Reading] Suicide as Seen by the
Editor of The American Mercury
The Encyclopedia
Of World War I:
A Political, Social,
and Military History		 Spencer C. Tucker
Editor		 ABC-Clio 175 Historians with
1200 Essays on WWI
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #153
www.ralphmag.org/EE/indexEE.html
Mid-Fall 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
Guide to Aging[G]
What Everyone
Needs to Know 		Christine K. Cassel, Editor New York University What Every Geezer or
Would-Be Geezer
Needs to Know
Snapshots of Bloomsbury
The Private Lives of
Virginia Woolf and
Vanessa Bell		 Maggie Humm Rutgers University Press Astonishing Home Photographs
of the Bloomsbury Set
Buddhist Meditation
for Beginners[B]		 Jack Kornfield Sounds True A Compendium of Advice
for the Mystical Novice or
The Novice Mystic
Mud:[B]
A Military History		 G. E. Wood Potomac Just What It Says:
A Bloody History of
Mud, No Less
The Discomfort Zone[B] Jonathan Franzen HighBridge The Author Reads
His Most Recent,
An Autobiography
Butterfly Boy
Memories of a
Chicano Mariposa		 Rigoberto González University of Wisconsin Growing Up Gay ---
And Chicano
Islamic Calligraphy Sheila S. Blair Edinburgh University Press An Exhaustive Survey
of Arabic Script
Animal Quackers L. W. Milam [Article] Lives of Young Pekins ---
Fifty Years Ago
Death of a
Dreamer		 M. C. Beaton
Graeme Malcom,
Reader		 Audio Partners Another Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The Year They Tried
To Block The Deputy		 Warren Hinckle [Reading] A Charming Rendering of The Deputy's
Earliest Performance in New York
Martin Gilbert
Mark Thornton
Sarcastic Reviews		 Francis Wakefield
Fiona Hayhoe		 [Letters] Responses to Reviews and Articles in RALPH
Disability and Pain
Darlene Cohen		Andrew Cooper [Letter] Response to a Reading in RALPH
On Teaching James Kimprell [Poem] Love in the Classroom
Rural English
Copulation --- 1780		 Verlyn Klinkenborg [Reading] Rural Love-Life in
18th Century England
Timothy;* Or, Notes of
An Abject Reptile		 Verlyn Klinkenborg
Josephine Bailey, Reader		 Tantor Media A Fine Rendering of
The Voice of the Turtle
The Wisdom of Wilderness
Experiencing the
Healing Power of Nature		 Gerald G. May HarperSanFrancisco The Late Writer's Take on
Christian and Psychological
Transcendentalism
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #154
www.ralphmag.org/EF/indexEF.html
Late Fall 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
Everyman*[B] Philip Roth
George Guidall,
Reader		 Recorded Books The Famed Author's Novel
On Death and Dying
(And Ageing Lust)
The Life Cycles
Of Butterflies[B]		 Judy Burris
Wayne Richards		 Storey From Egg to Maturity,
A Visual Guide to 23
Common Garden Butterflies
My Nautical Career Dr. Phage [Article] A Week in the
Wilds of a Cruise Ship
Dining Room
A Visit from Ms. Death Oscar Hahn [Poem] Lying in the Arms
Of the Grim Reaper
James A. Garfield Ira Rutkow Times Books A Medical View of the Death
Of the Thirteenth
American President
Biased Comments in RALPH
Sacco and Vanzetti		 Terry Wiley
Richard Newby		 [Letters] Correspondence with RALPH
About Previous Reviews and Articles
Tom Cruise and
Sumner Redstone		 Daisy Lee Myers, RN [More Letters] Even More Correspondence with RALPH
About Previous Reviews and Articles
Memoirs of
Montparnasse*		 John Glassco Viking/Compass Two Years with Artists
in Paris (1928 - 1930)
Moon Dog Song Angel Pérez [Poem] Love on the Tracks
To Madrid
Willy-Wagging
At NASA		 John Lanchester [Reading] The Truth Behind
NASA's Various Missions
Uneasy Listening:
Pacifica Radio's
Civil War		 Matthew Lasar Black Apollo Press The Varied (and Endless) Wars
At Pacifica Foundation/KPFA
Paris Review
Interviews, I		 Introduction by
Philip Gourevitch 		Picador Sixteen Writers and Editors in Interview
Pepys' Diary* Samuel Pepys
Kenneth Branagh,
Reader		 HighBridge Classics The Life and Loves
(And Business and Seductions)
Of the 17th Century Gentleman
Recalling War Robert Graves [Poem] The 1938 Poem about
World War One
The Instruction Manual
For Receiving God		 Jason Shulman Sounds True 108 Truisms for
Receiving the Divine
Who Will Be Fed? A. A. Gill [Reading] The Starvation of the Dinka of Africa
Unholy Ghost[G]
Writers on Depression		 Nell Casey, Editor Morrow Various Novelists Tell of
The Black Dog
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #155
www.ralphmag.org/EG/indexEG.html
Early Winter 2006
Title Author Publisher Subject
Billy Wong Michael Ingall [Article] Dr. Ingall's Memories of One of His More Eccentric Patients
Dancing Under the Red Star[B]
The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner,
the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag		 Karl Tobin Water Brook Ten Years in the Gulag
Hebrew Illuminations[B] Adam Rhine
Louise Temple		 Sounds True The Twenty-Two Letters of Hebrew Rendered in Color
Penetrating Wisdom:[B]
The Aspiration of Samantabhadra		 The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Snow Lion Commentary on an Obscure
Text of Tibetan Buddhism
My Chaos Theory Steve Watkins Southern Methodist University Modern American Short Stories
The DNA Detectives
How the Double Helix Is Solving
The Puzzle of the Past		 Anna Meyer Thunder's Mouth Press Ancient DNA Research
Moscow Stories* Loren Graham Indiana University Press An American Researcher in Moscow, 1963 - Present
A Ten-Year-Old in Hernia Operation Philip Roth [Reading] The Fears of the Young
Michael Ingall Lolita Lark [Article] Memories of the Late Psychiatrist
Tomorrow in the Battle
Think on Me[G]		 Javier Marías New Directions A Book on Love & Death from Spain
Time at War Nicholas Mosley Dalkey Archive A British Writer Remembers WWII in Africa and Italy
Owls Cynthia Berger Stackpole The Memorable (and Sometimes Disgusting)
Living Habits of Owls
Falling in Love with Rosemary Nicholas Mosley [Reading] Memories of Love and War in 1940s England
Dorothy Parker,
The Instruction Manual
for Receiving God		 Wanda Felix
guttermth8@aol.com 		[Letters] Correspondence with RALPH
About Previous Reviews
Maori Hongi TeHamua Nikora [More Letters] More Correspondence
With Ralph About
Previous Reviews
The Road to
Real-Estate Wealth,
Of the King Who Had Even		 mplycomo@plycom.com
twic@mac.com		 [Even More Letters] Even More Correspondence
With Ralph about Previous Reviews
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

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