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A Bell Ringing In The Empty Sky

The Best Of The Sun, Volume II

This second volume from The Sun's first decade is a glimpse into the magazine’s early years. "Subtle, sometimes mystical," the Los Angeles Times says, "this anthology never disappoints, alternating whimsical essays with soulful contemplations."

CONTENTS

Introduction
Sy Safransky

A Short History Of Part Of North Carolina
C.B. Clark

Seeing It This Way Helps Better Than Being A Highway Frisbee
Hal J. Daniel III

Black Reaper
Lorenzo W. Milam

The Elements
David C. Childers

Parents
Sparrow

Three Photographs
Priscilla Rich

Carl
Death Bed
From Burnside To Goldblatt By Streetcar
J.W. Rivers

New York Diary: Amazing Flesh
Sy Safransky

My Father’s Garage On Christmas Night
Michael Shorb

Waiting
Elizabeth Rose Campbell

The Funeral
David Citino

Childhood Fears
David C. Childers, Paul Linzotte

Stealing Souls
John Rosenthal

Recognition
Sy Safransky

On Women
Cindy Crossen

Living At The Edge
Barbara Street

Good Marriages
Adam Fisher, Sparrow, Bo and Sita Lozoff

Pockets
A Few Sky Things Explained
Steven Ford Brown

Hard Learning: A Diary
Stephanie Mills

In Defense Of Van Gogh
Leslea Newman

The Lucy Syndrome
David Koteen

My Body
David Searls, Linda Burggraf, Brian Adler, Ami Bourne

You Eat It
Sy Safransky

Death And Other Cures
Sy Safransky

My Father’s Dying
Virginia L. Rudder

Gently Changing: An Interview With O. Carl Simonton
Lightning Brown

A Father’s Death
O. Carl Simonton, M.D.

Man Is
Irving Weiss

The Silent Mind: An Interview With Jehangir Chubb
Sy Safransky

Birdseye
Pat Ellis Taylor

O Marie, Concue Sans Peche
Kathleen Snipes

Memoirs Of A Professional Killer
Art Hill

Man Of Silver, Man Of Gold
Leslie Woolf Hedley

Lies
Christopher Bursk

Three Photographs
John Rosenthal

We’re All Doing Time: An Interview With Bo And Sita Lozoff
Howard Jay Rubin

What’s Happening? Who Understands Me But Me?
Jimmy Santiago Baca

We Are People
Ben Chavis

Release
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Morning Shastra
James Magill

We Killed Them
Ron Jones

The Depths Of A Clown: An Interview With Wavy Gravy
Howard Jay Rubin

News From Hacker City
Richard Gess

Lord Shantih
Thomas Wiloch

Hot Dogs
Karl Grossman

Californicated, Santa Crucified
Rob Brezsny

Drugs

Something Does Push The River
David Spangler

Growing Older
Adam Fisher

The Weather This Morning
Advent
Roger Sauls

A Medical Doctor Diagnoses Reality
Irving Oyle, M.D.

The Eleventh Man
Leonard Rogoff

Autobiography No. 34
Carl Mitcham

Three Photographs
Priscilla Rich

Of God, And My Father
David M. Guy

Seeing The Gift: An Interview With Hugh Prather
Sy Safransky

How I See God
Virginia Mudd, Kathleen Snipes

Teachers
Francesca Hampton

An Interview With Ram Dass
Sy Safransky

Random Notes On Spiritual Life
Adam Fisher