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FICTION
Ron Carlson THE
CLICKER AT TIPS'I was gladdened to be wrong, sitting there so wrong, waiting for this fine young man.' Stuart Dybek FICTION'I wanted to tell you a story without telling the story.' David Foster Wallace ON
HIS DEATHBED, HOLDING YOUR HAND, THE ACCLAINED NEW YOUNG OFF-BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT'S
FATHER BEGS A BOON'Listen: I did despise him. I do.' James Kelman YEH,
THESE STAGES'... on a sort of downside keel, no wind, just drifting about with the sails slack, not knowing fuck all...' NEW VOICES
Fiction: Christina ChiuTROUBLEMAKERPoetry: Michael Hainey AUTUMN
COMES TO CHICAGOPOETRY
Nuar AlsadirTHE
CLOSETCharles Simic STAND-IN
BIBLE
LESSON INTERROGATING
MR. WORMC. K. Williams TENDER
THE
POETAgha Shahid Ali LENOX
HILLJoanna Goodman COMING
OF AGEPhilip Fried FUR
PIECE INDIAN
SUMMER AT SPRING LAKEAles Debeljak, translated by Christopher Merrill WOMAN'S
SHADOW HOMECOMINGAnne-Marie Levine FIRST
WIFEPROFILES
Christopher MerrillPETER
MATTHIESSEN: UNLETTERED ELOQUENCE; THE LOST RIVER TRILOGYNoted essayist and translator Christopher Merrill heads to Sagaponack for the last word on the epic trilogy by the acclaimed writer and adventurer Peter Matthiessen. Alberto Fuguet ARIEL
DORFMAN: CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT EXILEThe internationally renowned Chilean exile, novelist and playwright talks to the prominent young Chilean novelist during the week of Pinochet's arrest in London. PILGRIMAGE
Rachel KadishREPARATIONS
SPOKEN HERE?In a quest for fiscal and psychic reparations, the novelist returns to Poland with family members who survived the Holocaust. FEATURES
Rick Moody's FRACTAL
LOVE OF BRIAN ENOThe author of 'The Ice Storm' and 'Purple America' creates an Eno-inspired computer program to shuffle his impressions and homages to the musician whose work transcends categorization. Angelica Garnett THE
HOURSThe voice of Virginia Woolf, on Michael Cunningham's Woolf-inspired novel 'The Hours.' Richard McCann THE
RESURRECTIONISTThe shadow life of the author's donated liver. Ariel Dorfman on Roman Polanski's On-Set Obsessions The author watches Polanski's painstaking preparation for filming the adaptation of Dorfman's second play 'Death and the Maiden.' LOST & FOUND
IN PRAISE OF UNDERAPPRECIATED BOOKS AND AUTHORSFrancine Prose on Rebecca West's Nuremberg trial coverage, GREENHOUSE FOR CYCLAMENS. Fran Gordon on cult short story writer Kate Braverman. Helen Schulman on Jerome Badanes's Lost Classic, THE FINAL OPUS OF LEON SOLOMON. Rachel Resnick on Nell Dunn's 60's Brit romp, UP THE JUNCTION. Jim Lewis on the LBJ-inspired THE GAY LIFE. David Gates on the wild survivalist tract POSSUM LIVING. A READABLE FEAST
Colette RossantGRANDMAMAN'S
POKER DAYAn excerpt from the noted Egyptian/French food writer's 'Memories of a Lost Egypt; A Memoir with Recipes.' THE LAST WORD
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