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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
Peter Rock BLOOMSIf I could tell the librarian one story, it would be this one. And I would tell her only a little at a time, until she couldn't stand it. Mary Gaitskill THERAPYShe would watch with her arms folded and a look of satisfaction on her face; a decent, ordinary person enttled to her decent, ordinary hate. Lydia Davis LETTER
TO A FUNERAL PARLORThere is nothing wrong with inventing words, especially in a business. But grieving families are not prepared for this one. Quintan Ana Wikswo WHEN
I WATCHED HIM HANG THE HORSEThe bones weren't scattered around. They were laid out in the pasture as neat and close as the yarn in a sweater. Peter Vilbig BOAFrom this mess, his left and only eye stared out as if it were the one living thing in his face. NEW VOICES
Poetry: B. T. ShawAFTER
A FASHION ABSENTMINDED
REMEMBERINGFiction: Debra Burns A
MATTER OF TIMEIrregular and labored, deep and then deeper, the sound is clearly coming from the apartment across the street. POETRY
Michael MorseMEREDITH,
COME BACK AS A THRUSHDiane Ackerman WATERCOLOR
BY PAUL KLEE BLOOD
ORANGES THE
PATHJames Tate THE
BEAUTIFUL SHOESHINE SO
MUCH ALIKE WIND
AMONG THE LEAVESYehuda Amichai LIFE
IS CALLED LIFESharon Olds ON
THE HEARTH OF THE BROKEN HOME AT NIGHTWislawa Szymborska MIRACLE
FAIR BALL
LOVE
AT FIRST SIGHTJason Shinder YOUFEATURES
Nick ToschesSAM
AND BILL AT THE MONKEY-GLAND CLINICFaulkner's affinity for minstrelsy, the blues, and the sexual elixir of monkey glands. Charles Simic POETRY:
THE ART OF MEMORYRemembering Yehuda Amichai. Eric Konigsberg COWBOY
ARTISTS OF AMERICABehind the nation's largest and richest art market. Kathryn Harrison NIT
PICKERSWhen lice attack!!! INTERVIEWS/PROFILES
Charles Baxter, Interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin RabalaisThe master of the mundane on getting failure right. Stanley Kunitz, Interviewed by Amy Bartlett The ninety-five-year-old Poet Laureate's memories and passions. PILGRIMAGE
Diana Abu-JaberBORN
TO RUNImmigrant dreaming, from the real desert of Jordan to the spiritual desert of L.A. LOST & FOUND
Robert Cohen on Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes's P.'s Three Women.Love and deception—Brazilian style. Fiona Maazel on Humberto Constantini's The Long Night of the Francisco Sanctis. An Argentinian bureaucrat confronts his country's systematic repression in this harrowing and hilarious farce. Mark Yates on Bohumill Hrabal. The Czech writer championed the ordinary and slid under the Communist radar. Janet Fitch on Samantha Dunn's Failing Paris. An American expat on getting it wrong in Paris. The winner of PEN-West, yet unpublished in the United States. A READABLE FEAST
Susha GuppyPERSIAN
CUISINEIn exile in London, the Iranian writer keeps a family's culinary legacy alive and cooking. BLITHE SPIRITS
Mark StatmanLOW-DOWN
MEZCALDon't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue. LAST WORD
Tim GearyACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThank you, really. PORTFOLIO
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