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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
Dylan Landis RANA FEGRINAShe has never stood this close to a slut. She thought a slut would have yellow teeth. Richard Powers An excerpt from his upcoming novel, THE TIME OF OUR SINGINGShe had that bruised, hothouse flower look, her face the color of spun sugar, trimmed by glossy black, unnervingly straight hair that fell in a pert Prince Valiant helmet. Dorothy Allison COMPASSION"Mama sits up late smoking dope and listening to Black Sabbath on the headphones. Acts like she's seventeen and nothing's changed in the world at all." Helen Schulman THE INTERVIEWIn truth, her desirous nature had been one of the things that helped her rope in her husband—Dan's first wife had been more of a once-a-monther. Ryan Harty WHY THE SKY TURNS RED WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWNWhy settle for a child who breaks down all the time when you can have a new one who won't? POETRY
Olena Kalytiak DavisTHE TRUE REPERTORY OF THE WRACK AND REDEMPTION OF SIR OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS YOU ART A SCHOLAR, HORATIO, SPEAK TO ITPhilip Metres STOPPING BY KRISPY KREMEMonica Ferrell THE LAST TIBERIUS LAUDANUMKarl Kirchwey PHILADELPHIA ZOOGuiseppe Ungaretti, translated by Andrew Frisardi JUNE HYMN TO DEATHDaniel Tiffany RED VELOCE VIRTUOSOPILGRIMAGE
Lisa MichaelsTHE OLDEST LOVE IN NEW SHAPESIn the footsteps of thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi. INTERVIEW
Francine Prose talks with Elissa Schappell about muses, bad sex, and Yoko Ono.NEW VOICES
Fiction: Margot MeyersCIRCAHe strews the names of discreet, sophisticated women throughout their conversation, encouraging her to take one as a lover. Poetry: Shannon Welch PLANETARIUMLOST & FOUND
Cynthia Kaplan on James Thurber's The 13 Clocks, the master satirist's ostensible children's book about an evil duke.Gerald Howard on James Leigh's novel What Can You Do? a seamless conflation on French sex farce, English anti-hero comedy, and American coming-of-age novel. Julia Bryan-Wilson on I See/You Mean by Lucy Lippard, a 70s experimental novel that reads like your hippie aunt's psychedelic sex diary. Michelle Wildgen on Lillian Hellman and Peter Feibleman's cookbook, Eating Together, an extended, affectionate culinary argument that's pure Hellman. Karen Karbo on Carolyn See's Rhine Maidens, a timeless 1981 mother-daughter double narrative, set in southern California, that depicts familial angst with edginess, expertise, and a wit to rival Lorrie Moore. BLITHE SPIRITS
Sara RoahenDRINKING MY INHERITANCEBrandy old-fashioneds: THE Wisconsin cocktail. A READABLE FEAST
Lynne SampsonA SEASON IN ELK COUNTRYRare and wild, Oregon's elk meat is a cult unto itself. THE LAST WORD
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