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We have even included some excerpts for you to check out. As you read through the Table of Contents, click on the gold links to catch a glimpse of what this issue holds for you. FICTION
Steve Almond THE SOUL MOLECULE"An abduction can take one of two forms. The first is purely for research purposes. Cell harvesting, that kind of thing. The second involves implants, Jim, such as the one in my brain." Emily Ishem Raboteau KAVITA THROUGH GLASSHe doubted his paternity. He doubted his doubt. Every time she left she would admonish him not to follow her. Of course the night came when he decided to do just that. Chris Offutt INSIDE OUTDeath produces an irrational need for tidiness and a surprising amount of spontaneous sex. I've found people in the coatroom, the foyer, the restroom, even the chapel. Ron Carlson AT THE EL SOLWhat I was really doing was handwriting one complete chronological record of the five-week scam by which my associates and myself had stolen fifty-one hundred dollars from the River of Gold casino outside Incon, New Mexico. FEATURES
Christopher MerrillAFTER YOUA tribute to the late poet Agha Shahid Ali. Lynn Freed SEX WITH SERVANTS!Getting down to the truth in autobiographical fiction. Panio Gianopoulos ARACHNOPHILIAFinding the inner Spider-Man. POETRY
Agha Shahid AliAFTER YOURafiq Kathwari FIRE TREEStuart Dybek JOURNALMarge Piercy TACONIC AT MIDNIGHTSir Muhammed Iqbal (Translated by Rafiq Kathwari) HIMALAYA A WALK IN THE SKYRachel Hadas ZONE OF ATTRACTIONMonica Ferrell THE LION OF SAINT JEROMEL'HEURE VERTEELEVEN STEPS TO BREAKING UP A HARTTadeusz Rozewicz, translated by Joanna Trzeciak FRANCIS BACON OR DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ IN THE DENTIST'S CHAIRTom Sleigh DAY ROOMEPISTLE
THE PARABLE OF THE TAPEWORMAn excerpt from Letters to a Young Novelist, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Natasha Wimmer. INTERVIEWS
Ken Kesey by Carla PerryA last interview with the original Merry Prankster and author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Billy Collins by Anne Sheffield The U.S poet laureate on old-world influences, political correctness, and his love affiar with poetry. NEW VOICES
Fiction: Margaret LuongoPRETTYI stare at him frankly—you can't be subtle in these things. Fiction: Garth Buckner THE HUMAN TIDEHe decides that the money is enough and that the trouble is enough and he loosens the highwayman's hitch that is binding the rope that ties the two ships together. Poetry: Amelia Klein TO ASH THE LOOKOUTLOST & FOUND
Jim Shepard on Maria Beig.Gardner McFall on Elliott Coleman's 27 Night Sonnets. Beth Kephart on Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders. Frank Bures on Ngugi wa Thiongo's Matigari. Whitney Otto on Isadora Duncan's My Life. A READABLE FEAST
The Ex-Boyfriend CookbookExcerpts from the upcoming cookbook by Erin Ergenbright and Thisbe Nissen. They say food is the way to a man's heart, but here, men are the way to good food. THE LAST WORD
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