Loaded Magazines
New titles in Utne's mailbox feature small towns, big ideas
November / December 2005
Chris Dodge Utne magazine
Unfolding from a small town in Iowa is
FISHWRAP, an eclectic and interesting new
quarterly journal, small in format but large in spirit. It's
published by the nonprofit Institute for Small Town Studies, and
the first six issues cover topics ranging from movable dwellings,
basketball aesthetics, and shortline railroads to tiny towns,
effects of celebrities on small towns, and Walt Whitman's influence
on Yiddish poets. (Available by donation from Box 13, Fairfield, IA
52556; www.ists.org.)
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