The Exhibitionist no. 2
Archive Books, 2010
Magazine, 60 pages, $15 per issue

This new journal, edited by Jens Hoffmann (CCA Wattis Institute director) and published twice a year, is devoted entirely to the practice of exhibition making. It is made by curators, for curators; the objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns, encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. This second issue includes essays by Jack Bankowsky (Artforum), Peter Eely (MoMA PS1), Okwui Enwezor (Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art), and Nato Thompson (Creative Time, New York).

My Dog Teny
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, 2010
Paperback, 32 pages, $18

This book tells a true story about a boy and his dog and the friendship that they shared during the time of the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans during World War II. It is written by Yoshito Wayne Osaki and illustrated by Felicia Hoshino (Illustration 1988).

MFA Program in Writing faculty member Gloria Frym's new chapbook, Any Time Soon (Little Red Leaves, 2010) was just released this week as part of issue 5 of Little Red Leaves (LRL), which is a collectively edited annual online journal of poetry as well as an ebook/paperback series of original chapbooks and reprints.

The Best Travel Writing 2010
Travelers' Tales, 2010
Paperback, 352 pages, $19.95

In "12 Hours in Barcelona" Writing & Literature professor Marianne Rogoff has a dusk-till-dawn layover in the city of Gaudi. She leaves her bags in an airport locker, buses to the center of town, and finds herself one among many on a festival occasion, out "on a night when free ballets and symphonies and theatrical performances are taking place all over town, lending a glow, heightening our pleasure, focusing the eye out of the chaos of so-much-to-see into the framework of the arts: dance, music, language. Over there, young spoken-word poets are rapping hip-hop beats; here, it's Shakespeare in Spanish; now, a celebratory speech; in my ear, the stories of Barcelona's past and future. I see it all from my perch atop this slow-moving red bus."