Wild River Review

JULY 2009

RECENTLY IN WRR:

UP THE CREEK: From the Editor’s Desk: Blind Faith

BLOG: WRR@Large

BLOG: Wild Finance: Where Money and Politics Dance

SPOTLIGHT: Has Barack Obama Killed Public Financing?

SPOTLIGHT: Frank Gehry's Lewis Library - Shimmering and Worth the Wait

COLUMN: From the Wilds of Manhattan - Ah, but Did You See the London Production? A New Yorker's Guide to One-Upping Your Theatre-Mad, Ultra-Insecure Neighbors

COLUMN: Letters to a Young Musician

SPOTLIGHT: Public Financing of Candidates: A Faustian Bargain

COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Sacred Spaces Part II

COLUMN: Triple Goddess Trials Fire in the Head: Brigit’s Mysterious Spark

SHORT STORY: Talk Radio

SPOTLIGHT: Migration, Remittances and Latin America

AIRMAIL: Hong Kong Diary —
St. Dominic’s Preview

SPOTLIGHT: A Greek on the Silk and Dragon Road

SPOTLIGHT: The Steamy Side of Istanbul

COLUMNS: Wild West - Gardens of Water



Media Kit

Who reads Wild River Review?

Our international male/female readership includes people from every time zone. Our core demographic ranges from 25 – 55, although our readers span all ages.

How does Wild River Review promote education?

Wild River Review reveres the life of the mind and promotes lifelong education.

We actively seek to nurture the next generation of writers, travelers, thinkers and editors in order to help them establish a foothold in a difficult and rapidly changing field on which open communication and true understanding depends. To that end, each semester we work with several interns. Although the students work on all aspects of the magazine, we tailor our internship programs to fit their goals and backgrounds. We invite interns (and subsidize attendance) to all major events (PEN World Voices, etc.) where they might meet important contacts.

Wild River Review also encourages submissions from and publishes new writers in a climate where there are fewer and fewer venues for deep, thoughtful essays and crafted writing.

As print journalism struggles to redefine itself and increasingly loses market share, established writers are also finding it harder to showcase their work. While benefiting from the capacity of the web to reach a wide audience, Wild River Review holds and guards the standards established by print media. We also offer established writers a viable alternative to mainstream media, and a forum for original ideas and fresh viewpoints.

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Who is Wild River Review?

Wild River Review works with contributors from around the world. We are based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and Princeton, New Jersey.

 

Joy E. Stocke

Joy E. Stocke

Joy E. Stocke, WRR Editor-in-Chief

Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor in Chief of Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey, as well as religion, ancient and modern. Her travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, co-written with Angie Brenner, will be published by Fulbright Publishing, in 2010.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. She has worked with numerous writers shepherding their manuscripts and articles into print and onto the web, and is currently working with Voluntour Morocco focusing on rural economic development and women’s and children’s education in rural areas.

EMAIL: jstocke@wildriverreview.com

JOY E. STOCKE IN THIS EDITION:
PEN WORLD VOICES: Language Within Silence — An Interview with Norwegian Writer Per Petterson
PEN WORLD VOICES: Tonight We Rest Here — An Interview with Poet Saadi Youssef
BLOG: WRR@LARGE
SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Greg Olsen - Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Space Traveler
SPOTLIGHT: Arabic from Left to Right — An Interview with Saad Abulhab
SPOTLIGHT: Fly Me to the Moon — A Conversation with Mathematician and Artist, Ed Belbruno
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
SPOTLIGHT: Poetry, Science, and the Big Bang — John Timpane Goes to Cambridge
SPOTLIGHT: Rumi and Coke — An Excerpt from Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey
QUARK PARK: Of Algorithms, Google & Snow Globes — An Interview with Computer Scientist David Dobkin, Dean of Faculty at Princeton University
QUARK PARK: The Scientist as Rebel — Freeman Dyson Talks About Nuclear Weapons, Space Travel, and the Future
QUARK PARK: The Solace of Vacant Spaces — Interview with Peter Soderman
QUARK PARK: Music in Stone — Sculptor Jonathan Shor
UP THE CREEK: Editor’s Notes

Kim Nagy

Kim Nagy

Kim Nagy, WRR Executive Editor

Incorrigible collector of ideas, Kim Nagy serves as Commissioning Editor for Wild River Review. In between scoping out writing talent, new articles, interviews and creating new series, she is a poet, professional writer, and dedicated reader who has interviewed a number of leading thinkers, including historian James McPherson, playwright Emily Mann, and philosopher Alain de Botton.

Nagy received her Bachelor’s in History at Rider University and M.A. from the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. She has worked in public relations and marketing for publishers, such as W.W. Norton, Routledge UK, and Princeton University Press.

She is currently writing a book called The Triple Goddess Trials, based on her Wild River Review column of the same name. In it, she explores every stage of women’s lives through the timeless insights of myth.

WEBSITE: www.KimNagy.com
EMAIL: knagy@wildriverreview.com

KIM NAGY IN THIS EDITION:
Up the Creek: A Wild Peace
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Fire in the Head: Brigit’s Mysterious Spark
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — The Triple Goddess
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Aphrodite and the Lightbulb Factory
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Meet Medea
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Kali’s Ancient Love Song
COLUMN: The Triple Goddess Trials — Syrinx and the River
PEN WORLD VOICES: The Art of Connection — A Conversation with Alain de Botton
BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices
QUARK PARK: An Interview with Rush Holt
QUARK PARK: Labor of Love — An Interview with Kevin Wilkes
QUARK PARK: Journey into the Male & Female Brain — An Interview with Tracey Shors
SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Greg Olsen - Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Space Traveler
SPOTLIGHT: Boundless Theater — An Interview with Emily Mann
SPOTLIGHT: Keeping Time — An Interview with Historian James McPherson
SPOTLIGHT: On the Rocks — Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record — An Interview with Peter Ward — Part 1
SPOTLIGHT: On the Rocks — Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record — An Interview with Peter Ward — Part 2
SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice
SPOTLIGHT: A Voice Answering a Voice — A Conversation with Renée Ashley

Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki

Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki


Katherine Schimmel Baki, Director of Global Partnerships

Katherine Schimmel Baki is co-founder of haut>art, an art consulting company whose mission is to acquaint the public with the work of new artists and to create visually compelling spaces for its clients. Katherine has a longstanding interest in the perceptual dynamics of visual and aural phenomena. She holds a BA degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a graduate degree (ALM) in the field of Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East conducting original research on the Adhan, the Islamic oral call to prayer. Her field work in Cairo resulted in a dissertation entitled, Hayya ‘ala al-Salat: The Socio-Religious Impact of the Adhan on the Muslim Community of Cairo, (1994). In 2005-2006, she was part of the Quark Park team of Princeton, New Jersey, whose goal was to generate greater public interest in science and art through the creation of an interactive 18,000 square foot science park in the heart of town. Katherine is currently working on a number of research projects within the fields of ethnomusicology and social anthropology.

KATHERINE SCHIMMEL ABDEL BAKI IN THIS EDITION:
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Introduction
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William A. Graham
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Phenomenology of Islam
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift
COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William Chittick