Spring 1997
Cover subject "Glurpo" was scanned from an old postcard of Martin Venezky's. It was from Aquarena, a roadside water park in San Marcos, Texas, and Glurpo's high-concept act would apparently include handstands in a small tank of water. In this issue, Speak makes a tentative step toward more substantial editorial, while still including silly fashion photo features—this one by world-renowned photographer Manuela Pavesi (we hadn't heard of her either, but whenever we mentioned the name to fashiony types they seemed impressed).

Content
Silent Nights: New musicians add music to silent films.

Bad: Frederick Busch's acerbic tour through the world of literature.

Ink & Paper: a profile of America's best literary journal Ploughshares.

"Skeleton": fiction by Steven Schwartz Memories of a

Songwriter: Townes Van Zandt

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