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Fela: Kalakuta Notes (Second Edition)
by John Collins
Wesleyan University Press (2015), 326 pages

In this installment of Ex Arte, Laura Scheriau talks about inspiration in generation Dragon Ball Z with German artist, and soon-to-be tattooist, Christina Becher, aka Izzy.

Prior to discussing the four pictures, Christina explains her passion, and where the urge and inspiration for her art comes from.

Writer’s Notes is a series that invites writers to detail their projects at any stage in their process. In this third installment by author Phil Hanrahan, he discusses his research trip and continuing work on a book about the Burren College of Art in western Ireland’s singular Burren region. The book is currently titled Moonlight in County Clare.

Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
by David Margolick
Other Press (2013), 320 pages

Recently, our Editor in Chief Shaun Randol had the opportunity to sit down with Josh Scheer at KPFK Radio to chat about The Mantle, our new publishing imprint, and the curious world of social media.