March 2011
16 posts
“I had never realized before how metal a metal car was, never fully sensed the...”
– John Knowles describes traveling through Jordan by car, in Double Vision.
News of Past Contributors: William Lychak
William Lychak’s story collection The Architect of Flowers will be published on March 23 by Mariner.
Here is an excerpt from the Lychak story we published about Charles Darwin’s discovery of a lotus seed in a heron’s intestine - which will not appear in his book, but which does indicate how good the book will be.
The evolution of a species was echoed in the evolution of an individual—they rhymed,...
In our next issue: Fiction by Jennifer duBois
“In the City of the Dead,” by Jennifer duBois, is a first-person story narrated by an alcoholic grandmother who makes her living as a caregiver for dementia patients. It was a finalist for our Editor’s Prize, and will appear in our Spring issue.
There’s a chasm between those who turned away and those who looked. And so often, a family is like a vase that’s been broken for years but that...
“We had to postpone announcing the results of the short story competition …...”
– George Orwell, “As I Please - 23”
In our upcoming issue: nonfiction by Patricia...
A selection from Patricia Bjorklund’s humorous memoir “U.S. and Them, 1971,” about growing up in the ‘70s with parents who were leaders in the John Birch Society, will appear in our upcoming Spring issue. Here is an excerpt:
My father liked a quote from Edmund Burke: All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. “That’s not just some little inspirational motto to keep under...
In our upcoming issue: a story by Sarah Cornwell
This excerpt, from our upcoming Spring issue, comes from Sarah Cornwell’s story “The Floating Life,” about a teacher on an educational cruise with high school students. In the face of an unspecified possible global disaster that hovers over the cruise and the characters, the teachers have decided not to panic and to fulfill the mission of teaching the students about ocean life.
We wait. Lisa...
In our upcoming issue: an interview with Jo Ann...
Our forthcoming spring issue, “Peril,” will feature Amy Yelin’s interview with memoirist Jo Ann Beard. Beard, whose novel In Zanesville will be published by Little, Brown in April, talks about her experience writing in two different prose genres. Here is an excerpt:
I don’t believe writing creative nonfiction is synonymous with revealing yourself, or anyway it hasn’t been for me. The goal is to...
How similar are E.B. White and Richard Thompson?
How similar are Tennessee Williams and Har Mar...
