Post Road Magazine – Issue #14 | Spring/Summer 2008

FICTION:

Lalita and the Banyan Tree, by Shubha Venugopal
Nan, by Nathaniel Bellows
Pizza Man, by Jennifer Haigh
Crooning with Dino, by Ann Hood
Marge, by Michael Lowenthal

NONFICTION:

Working Nights in the Artificial Day, Working Days Confessions of a Pilsner Drinker

CRITICISM:

Eat, Memory, by Irina Reyn

POETRY:

Calculus + Land, by Mark Wisniewski
The Gospel According to Lucas + The Gospel According to John. by Paula Bohince
Partner, My Partner + The Kharma Club, by Heather Hartley
Invader + What Is, by Andrew Kozma
the end of history + the rise of the middle class, by Elliott Liu
Wanting a Child + The Parachute, by Anna Catone

ART:

Current Abstraction — Margaret Roleke

THEATRE:

Excerpt from Inert Dementia — Kobun Kaluza

ETCETERA:

Document: Hart Crane Guggenheim Application
Document: Anais Nin Marriage Certificate
Conversation: Amy Hempel Adam Braver
Exerpt: from Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang
Reprint: My Miscellanies. A Petition to the Novel-Writers
(Communicatedbya Romantic Old Gentleman) Wilkie Collins
Essay: Observing Victor Hugo Jeremy Mercer
Questionnaire: George Saunders

RECOMMENDATIONS:

An Ice Cream War by William Boyd — Ayelet Waldman
Peter Pan — Mary Gaitskill
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino — Dana Spiotta
Donald Antrim’s The Afterlife — Laurie Foos
Dirt Music by Tim Winton — Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Light While There Is Light by Keith Waldrop —Christopher Sorrentino
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey — Cynthia Thayer
Kurt Vonnegut — Sheila Heti
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean — Nick Antosca
Lynne Tillman’s No Lease on Life — Lisa Dierbeck
The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante — Ann Wood
Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns, The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (translated by Willem Samuels), and “Gusev” by Anton Chekhov (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky — Maud Casey