From the Stacks: August 10, 2007

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Utne Reader's library is abuzz with a steady flow of 1,500 magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively dispatches from the cultural front that are rarely found at big-box bookstores, newsstands, or even online. So we share the highlights (and occasional lowlights) of what's landing in our library each week in 'From the Stacks.' Check in every Friday for the latest edition.

In her admirably nonjudgmental zine, Who What When Where Why (I Think I Love You), Lex McQuilkin shares her favorite desperate-yet-entertaining 'Missed Connections' ads culled from two months of surfing the Bay Area's Craigslist site. Each post's unique grammatical style is preserved ('Your older, balding and sexy!!'), and McQuilkin's illustrations dream up visages of the would-be lovers in question. Some ads seem particularly ripe for romance, like 'Love on the Muni,' in which a San Francisco bus driver seeks 'Oh baby blue babe with your baby blue rain boots and baby blue bike... Next time I see you I am going to swerve that damn bus into the median and confess my loveee.' Other, less suave writers aren't quite as endearing: 'I am looking for the drunk chick that was at the Dragon Lounge last Wednesday night. I really felt a connection while you were rolling around on the pool table naked.' -- Danielle Maestretti

The Seattle-based arts magazine Resonance is the journalistic equivalent of that kid on the playground who always had the coolest new toys. The August issue sports a sleek new logo and a tasteful cocktail of the latest visual art, music, and writing, including reviews of the new Drinky Crow toy and some haunting Icelandic street art. Also in the issue, books editor Nick Goman writes about his awkward internet-based interview with renowned conceptual artist Miranda July, and managing editor Kris Kendall profiles Marine combat artists -- military-commissioned artists whose drawings and paintings depict the intensity and monotony that haunt war's frontlines. -- Brendan Mackie

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