Summer Fiction
Issue 20, Summer 2004
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FICTION
Steven 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 ButlerSEVERANCE
Very still, I hold my rifle drawn across my chest and I am careful even in the breath I draw.
Elizabeth TallentEROS 101
There's no panic quite like the panic of having found something you'd hate to lose.
Dan de WeeseGRAPHOLOGY
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 The Party of Ideas Space is Limited
Michael HaineyToo Soon
Chase TwichellCinderblock
Stephen Dunn For Many YearsThe Man
Henry IsraeliFor LJI, at Her BIrth
PROFILES and INTERVIEWS
Chris Offutt, by Tony Swofford
Tony Swofford talks to fellow writer and law-breaker Chris Offutt, about skulls, prose-as-taxidermy, his father's secret porn-writing career, and the sub-par jail of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Edward HirshPortrait 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-blown.
Zakes Mda, by John Kachuba
Mda's plays and novels are well-known in his native South Africa, but the writer is just gaining prominence in the Unites States. With John B. Kachuba, he discusses magic, the economic significance of beekeeping, and reopening the old wounds of apartheid.
ESSAYS
Francine Prose Remembering 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 PhillipsDream 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 BellRevisioning the Great Gatsby
Gatsby is more than great writing-it's also a tour de force of revision. An inside look at how Fitzgerald and his editor, Max Perkins, buffed one of American literature's most celebrated books to a high shine.
NEW VOICE
Krista Landers Angel 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.
LOST & FOUND
Tommy Wallach on Eugene Ionesco's Stories Number 1-4
Leslie A. Wootten on W.R. Burnett's Dark Hazard
Nathan Alling Long on W.S. Merwin's The Miner's Pale Children
Frank Bures on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Whispered Stories on Buru
Jeff KoehlerThe Lotus Eaters
Just what were Homer's lotus-eaters nibbling, and where can the author find some? .
Brian BookerPENNSYLVANIA: A NATURAL HISTORY
Flora and fauna of Penn's Woods-they're not what you'd expect.
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