November 08, 2009
UTNE READER

Street Librarian 11-12/02

An update from the Utne stacks

November / December 2002
By Chris Dodge, Utne 
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HEEB ("The New Jew Review") is an irreverent new magazine edited and published by Jennifer Bleyer, formerly responsible for the zine Mazel-Tov Cocktail. The second issue of Heeb includes interviews with Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein and gigolo Shai Shahar, profiles of two Jewish boxers, and an article about pornographer Al Goldstein. Subscriptions: $18 (4 issues) from Box 20074, Brooklyn, NY 11202;www.heebmagazine.com

THREE WEEKS IS AN ARCH new triweekly emanating from New York City. In a tone that skips back a century, preferring the rhythm of multisyllabic words, its editor and three associates write about airports, cockroaches, sleep, the weather, zoo animal deaths, and a 100 percent increase in pay phone costs. Subscriptions: $15/yr. from Box 1784, New York, NY 11101

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