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Article: Feathered Nest: like Nest, his pansexual, supremely eccentric shelter magazine, Joe Holtzman is an original. (media).(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2002
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It's easy to spot the two National Magazine Awards on Joe Holtzman's coffee table: They're the only solid-color objects in a New York apartment where stripes, plaids, and polka dots cover every available surface.
Holtzman's obsession with pattern is well-known to readers of Nest, his four-year-old magazine, in which pages are cut into eccentric shapes and given such riotous backgrounds that it's sometimes hard to find the photos. But Nest's content is even more surprising than its look: Among the environments featured in the quarterly "shelter book" are the Unabomber's cabin and a Chicago apartment decorated with plaster casts of rock stars' penises.
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