COVER: IRA CHERNOVA
untitled (photo)
INTERVIEW: Anais Yossarian
ALEC V. BAYMOS / TERRENCE WINTHROP (poem/annotations) The Touch Stone, Part II
BILLY BUTTFUCK REVIEWS THE CLASSICS
A Sojourn of Affiliated Afflations by Dick Swiveller
Unsuccessful Succussations by Uriah Heep
The Berber Barber of the Barbican by Boz Cockens
Ranunculus by Augustus Snodgrass
IRA CHERNOVA (photo series) untitled
THEODORE DELANEY (fiction) The Birthday
MATT DEVLIN (fiction) Poète Maudit
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Amalgamatic Themes
ANDREW HARPER (paintings)
Dope Sick Girl
Ruby Soho
Corazon de Oro
Black Derby Jacket
SABRINA LOPEZ'S SCIENCE PAGE: Radiocarbon
TIM MacKAYE (novella) Pirate Records
BRIN MORRIS (photo series) Staring at the Sea, Staring at the Sand
BILL PORTER (fiction) You Bring It, We Bend It
PATTI SATRAPI (poem) lŭsh'əs
CYNTHIA STONE & MARKY METTLE (topiary series) Topiarian Topologies, 1–4
SOLOMON WEST (essay) Letters to an American Friend, First Letter
ANAIS YOSSARIAN (fiction) Albatross
Ira Chernova was born and raised in Moscow. She fell in love with photography at an early age, but it was her modeling career that eventually brought her to New York. She has since transitioned from the beautiful face in front of the camera, to the discerning eye behind it.
In the history of RANK!, there were a handful of local establishments that came to be intimately associated with the magazine (e.g., The Porch, The Ocho, Factory Factotum). There was one place, though, that I feel stands above the rest (and I honestly don’t think I’m being presumptuous or conceited here…honestly!). Among them all, I feel that the most prominent and eminent, the central hub and prime incubator, was…
