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Issue 17, Fall 2003

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FICTION

James Salter

GIVE
You couldn't ask for something, only to stop something.

Deborah EisenbergREVENGE OF THE DINOSAURS
I've had a lot of practice in not getting pissed off at Bill.

Jim Crace

NEVER (an excerpt from the novel Genesis)
"Dance never, never does a bit of good."

Howard LuxenburgTHE PHOTOGRAPH
You'll want to know about Jake's evening gown and his death.

Steven MillhauserDANGEROUS LAUGHTER
The game began innocently and spread like a dark rumor.

Lee DurkeePERFECT WORLD
As she passed the scrub bushes, thousands of tiny purple butterflies started trailing after her.

Thom JonesVOLCANOES FROM HELL
Instead of an evening of connubial bliss with the fair lady, I got an ice bath in the hospital hydrotherapy room.

Frederick BuschTHE BOYS
"You always reminded him of men in the outfit. He called them the boys."

PILGRIMAGE

Katie Roiphe

Graham Greene's Vietnam

POETRY

David Lehman

12/19/02

Collette InexPhotographs of the Children's MuseumBrussels, BelgiumGirls of Patagonia

G.C. WaldrepVendible Aesthetic

Heather HartleyThe Seventh Art in the Sanitorium

Lev Rubinshtein (translated by Phil Metres)Questions of Literature

INTERVIEW

Win McCormack

TRACY KIDDER
The author of The Soul of the New Machine on Kissinger, Bush, and saving lives in Haiti and around the world.

NEW VOICES

Lynn KilpatrickTHE STUDY OF GUNS THE DISENFRANCHISED, GRIEVING

Gina ZuckerBIG PEOPLE
I suggested calling the Fire Department, but he said, "It's my club foot, there isn't anything anybody can do."

BLITHE SPIRITS

Carla Spartos "Notes from the Nauseous"

LOST & FOUND

Sallie Tisdale on Caroline Glyn's Don't Knock the Corners Off

Michael Schiavo on Douglas Crase

Steve Almond on John Williams' novel Stoner

A READABLE FEAST

Michelle Wildgen

ODE TO AN EGG
The lure of the oval.

THE LAST WORD

Henry Alford

WON'T LAST
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