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February 2010

Edit the Sad Parts

 By Paul Menchaca
 

The fog of war returns to Afghanistan.

[published: February 23, 2010]

Issue 20 Editors' Note

 By Last Exit Staff
 

Escape

[published: February 22, 2010]

The Iron Triangle

 By Nicholas Weissman and Corey Wascinski
 

“How could you consider a business that’s been in place for three generations valueless? How could it be?” A short documentary on the last resident of Willets Point, Queens.

[published: February 22, 2010]

Nowhere But Here

 By Anne Dailey
 

What I’m escaping to is precisely what most women of my grandparents’ generation were escaping from.

[published: February 22, 2010]

Congratulations, Scott Brown!

 By Bryan Joiner
 

In which we offer some words of advice to America’s newest member of the U.S. Senate.

[published: February 22, 2010]

J. Robert Lennon

 By Keach Hagey
 

Serialized by Harper’s magazine in 2006, J. Robert Lennon’s novel Happyland, about a doll tycoon’s overzealous attempts to make over a small town in upstate New York, was a delightful respite from the news of an Iraq War going from bad to worse. Now his latest novel, Castle, returns to that year to confront the mentality behind the worst mistakes of that conflict. The writer, professor, blogger and musician discusses his irritation with American notions of masculinity, the recent firing of Harper’s editor and the fact that he has never even Googled Pleasant Rowland, the doll tycoon whose potential litigiousness frightened away the novels’ original publisher.

[published: February 22, 2010]

Journey to Jeremie

 By Gary Fabiano
 

One chance for escape from the devastation left by Haiti’s earthquake was a ship named Conformity.

[published: February 22, 2010]