Summer Reading Sold Out
Issue #20, 2004
Fiction:
Steven Millhauser, Robert Olen Butler, Elizabeth Tallent, Dan DeWeese, Zakes Mda, Ellen LitmanSteven Millhauser
THE ROOM IN THE ATTIC • Whenever she met someone new - an ordeal she preferred to avoid - she insisted on the condition of absolute darkness.Robert Olen Butler
SEVERANCE • Very still, I hold my rifle drawn across my chest and I am careful even in the breath I draw.Elizabeth Tallent
EROS 101 • There's no panic quite like the panic of having found something you'd hate to lose.Dan DeWeese
GRAPHOLOGY • I found myself, in this week since my father's death, spontaneously able to reproduce his handwriting from the tip of my own pen.Zakes Mda
An excerpt from THE WHALE CALLER • They will use rib bones to construct the skeletons of their huts, ear bones as water-carrying vessels, other bones as furniture, pillows, and beds.Ellen Litman
DANCERS • They were tall, good-looking, and careless. They descended upon Tanya's life, took up residence in her apartment. They were dancers and nothing could be done about it.
Poetry:
David Lehman, Chase Twichell, Michael Hainey, Stephen Dunn, Henry IsraeliDavid Lehman
THE PARTY OF IDEASSPACE IS LIMITED
Chase Twichell
CINDERBLOCKMichael Hainey
TOO SOONStephen Dunn
FOR MANY YEARSTHE MAN
New Voice:
Krista LandersKrista Landers
FictionANGEL LOVE KING • To be redeemed, you had to be a sinner in the first place. The knowledge made me nauseous with self-loathing. Jesus wouldn't even like me.
Profiles & Interviews:
Anthony Swofford, Edward Hirsch, John B. KachubaAnthony Swofford
CHRIS OFFUTT • Anthony Swofford talks to fellow writer and lawbreaker about skulls, prose-as-taxidermy, his father's secret porn-writing career, ad the subpar jail of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Edward Hirsch
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN • The writer remembers novelist and longtime New Yorker editor William Maxwell and the magnetic ten-year friendship that seemed to arrive full-bloom.John B. Kachuba
ZAKES ZDA • Mda's plays and novels are well-known in his native South Africa, but the writer is just gaining prominence in the United States. He discusses magic, the economic significance of beekeeping, and reopening the old wounds of apartheid.
Essay:
Francine Prose, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan BellFrancine Prose
REMEMBERING THE SPALDING GRAY • Recalling a perfect listener, inveterate storyteller, and a man for whom cocktail hour was essential to the whole concept of civilization.Jayne Anne Phillips
DREAMS TALK • Drowned birds, comely Indian film stars, a writer waist-deep in a lake - what's dream life telling us? Jayne Anne Phillips explains.Susan Bell
REVISIONING THE GREAT GATSBY • Gatsby is more than great writing - it's also a tour de force of revision. A look at how Fitzgerald and his editor, Max Perkins, buffed one of American literature's most celebrated books to a high shine.
Lost & Found:
Tommy Wallach, Leslie A. Wootten, Nathan Alling LongTommy Wallach
on EUGENE IONESCO'S STORIES NUMBER 1-4Leslie A. Wootten
on W.R. BURNETT'S DARK HAZARDNathan Alling Long
on W.S. MERWIN'S THE MINER'S PALE CHILDREN
Readable Feast:
Jeff KoehlerJeff Koehler
THE LOTUS EATERS • Just what were Homer's lotus-eaters nibbling, and where can the author find some?
The Last Word:
Brian BookerBrian Booker
PENNSYLVANIA: A NATURAL HISTORY • Fauna of Penn's Woods - they're not what you'd expect.
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