FICTION

Ron Carlson AT THE BROKEN RIDGE
Mankind liked to think about time machines, but they were not prepared for actual time travel.

Corinna Vallianatos MY ESCAPEE
Living a long time solves only one of life’s mysteries, and that is what it is like to be very old.

Peter Rock AN EXCERPT FROM THE NOVEL My Abandonment
People are easy to follow, and it’s amazing the things they do when they think no one can see them.

George Makana Clark HALF NIGHT
The white light of dawn penetrated Sergeant Gordon’s eyelids and he woke with the smell of petrol and plastic and carbonized flesh in his nostrils.

Sean Ennis DARKFLIPS
Clip was a rapist on his board that day. He was sticking everything with speed and anger.

.NEW VOICE FICTION

Baird Harper INTERMODAL (complete story)
The thing I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, especially my mother, was that my father lived in a portable freight unit, with the velvet Jim Morrison.

POETRY

Jerry Williams
ADMISSION

Ryo Yamaguchi
ANIMALS

Peter Kline
MINOTAUR

Marie Howe
BEFORE THE FIRE (complete poem)
GOVERNMENT
HURRY
WHY THE NOVEL IS NECESSARY BUT SOMETIMES HARD TO READ

Roberto Bolaño, translated by Laura Healy
TWILIGHT IN BARCELONA
DINO CAMPANA REVISES HIS BIOGRAPHY IN CASTEL PULCI PSYCHIATRIC

Charles Simic
LIGHT SLEEPER
NOTHING

Samuel Amadon
EACH H (VI)
EACH H (VIII)

INTERVIEW

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
The cult darling and National Book Award winner gnaws on questions of freedom and fear, women and loss, and how it all shapes (and warps) his creativity.

ESSAYS & FEATURES

Heather Hartley THE DYING ART OF LA DAME PIPI DE PARIS
Potty Talk (colon) Tin House Paris Editor explores the underground economies that arise when you have to pay to answer nature’s call.

Nathan Alling Long LIVING ON THE BODY OF THE MOUNTAIN
The queer commune is more than the husbandry, love, explosive creativity and exotic meals. Even more still than the Tantric sex workshops, bestiality and drag.

Cintra Wilson BEWARE OF RAGING MUD FIRES
The author remembers growing up next to Marin County pirates, the anarchistic boat dwellers of Richardson Bay, for whom law (and clothing) were optional.

J.C. Hallman APPLICATION TO UTOPIA
An “intentional community” in rural Virginia presents cause to wonder: what does pragmatism do to the idealistic dream of harmonious, sustainable existence? Also, why does the general public deny itself the pleasure of the sun’s warmth on genitals?

LOST & FOUND

SEVEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT BLACK SHEEP

Glen David Gold
On No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again:
Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory, 1915–1935

Carl Elliott
On Guinea Pig Zero

Elizabeth Benedict
SHRINK-WRAPPED IN HEARTACHE

Paul Collins
NOTHING DOING

Rachel Urquhart
SHAKER MAMA

Kim Adrian
A PICKLE OF A NOVEL:
On Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.

Peter LaSalle
Secret Text: On Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant

READABLE FEAST

Martin Preib THE UNEMPLOYMENT STEW: A CHICAGO DELICACY
Grab some potatoes, onions and a little oil and you’re on your way to one of the simple pleasures of a hardscrabble life. Eggs are a welcome addition, as are dashes of bitterness, resentment and self-pity.

BLITHE SPIRITS

Douglas Bauer IOWA WINE
The only thing sweeter than some mass-produced, mass-market wines is the irony of where some of the good ones come from.

THE LAST WROD

Anne Elizabeth Moore
17 THESES ON THE EDGE

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