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FICTION
Ron Carlson EVIL
EYE ALLENThis was a person who did not dance in front of people, a girl who had never really behaved in such a way. She had never been among us. Aleksandar Hemon ACCORDIONMaybe that man never played that key; maybe he'll never play that note in his entire life. Katherine Shonk MY
MOTHER'S GARDENThe reactor is off in the distance, towering over the town... From here it all looks normal. Tara Ison BALLI know that the success of sex depends on contrivance, in holding yourself back. It's the tease, not the strip. Lauren Milne Henderson DRAINING
THE SNAKEIt wasn't a horsepipe. It was a penis. Ben Marcus THE
FAINTING PROJECTBy not fainting, we surrender our identities to the mundane chaos of time. NEW VOICES
Poetry: Benjamin GantcherPOEMPoetry: Christine Bauch AUGUST,
1981 AXFiction: David Schickler JACOB'S
BATHAmidst all this wonder was Jacob Wolf, twenty-eight, newly married and utterly dismayed. POETRY
Kelly Le FaveHEAT
OF DAY THE
FIRE IS A GORGEOUS SURPLUS THE
DRIVE-INDerek Walcott THREE
SELECTIONS FROM TIEPOLO'S HOUNDLiz Rosenberg THE
MAIDEN AND THE UNICORN THE
BREAKUPCharlie Smith LATE
RETURN TO MIAMIINTERVIEWS/PROFILES
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ ON EDGAR ALLEN POE"L'Après Midi d'un Faune" may be incomprehensible, but not the Master's portrait of the American writer who helped inspire the French Symbolist movement in poetry. ROB SPILLMAN AND SHERMAN ALEXIE Urban cowboys and Indians. PILGRIMAGES
Andrej BlatnikMICKEY
MOUSE TRAVELS EASTA young Slovenian writer watches East and West cultures blend on a trek through Eastern Europe. Stéphane Mallarmé ECHOES
OF THE SALONS AND BEACHES"L'Après Midi d'un Faune" may be incomprehensible, but not the Master's reflections on leaving Paris to the tourists and, from chairs along a western beach, smiling at the sea. FEATURES
Stéphane MallarméTHE
PIPE"L'Après Midi d'un Faune" may be... okay, okay, how about the Master's amazing description of his favorite pipe? Rick Moody DESTROY
ALL MONSTERS; An Ecstatic Haiku SequenceA Godzilla fan Celebrates monster movies. He eats Jujyfruits. Daniel Halpern COFFEE
& ORANGESThe author recalls his early encounters with poetry, experiencing anew the sensuality and flavors of the poem that first sparked his burgeoning imagination, Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning." EPISTLE
Stéphane MallarméLETTER
TO JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLERThe frequently incomprehensible Master's letter to the great nineteenth-century American painter. Stéphane Mallarmé RECOMMENDATION
ABOUT MY PAPERSLOST & FOUND
William Boyd on Her Privates We by Frederic Manning.A stunning World War One novel, first published in 1929 and championed by Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and TS Eliot, is told from the perspective of an ordinary private. Rachel Resnick on Stacey Levine's My Horse and Other Stories. A 1993 short story collection by a writer who has been justly compared with the best of Flannery O'Conner and Jane Bowles. Anderson Tepper on Near to the Wild Heart, by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. Written in 1944 when the author was nineteen, this intimate story penetrates the many-layered life of Joana, from her childhood in middle-class Rio to the collapse of her marriage and beyond. Susan Choi on Edward Newhouse's Many Are Called. A 1951 collection of forty-two gritty and calamitous stories penned by a colorful pro from the old "New Yorker" days. A READABLE FEAST
Stéphane MallarméPOÉSIE
DE LA CUISINE (Poetry of the Kitchen)The Master's simple, to-the-point "Mulligatawny" and "A New Year's Eve Menu." BLITHE SPIRITS
Elissa SchappellODE
TO A MARTINIJuniper berries have never tasted so good. THE LAST WORD
Paul WestWEIRDPORTFOLIO
Laudanum, by Tracey Moffatt
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