FICTION:

Chris Stops the Boys Dawsen — Wright Albertsen
Whatever Happened to Harlan? A Report from the Field —
David Hollander
The Doctors — Kirsten Menger-Anderson
The Day They Were Shooting Dogs — Samuel Reifler
Body Language + Balloons and Clowns and Popcorn + Mash —
Kim Chinquee
Monster — Rebekah Frumkin
My First Real Home — Diane Williams
Transformations — Alice Hoffman

NONFICTION:

Birthday — Kim Goldberg
Farewell — Laura Didyk
Little Orange Bottles — Jeremy Rice
Hold Your Horses the Elephants Are Coming — Christopher Higgs

CRITICISM:

Tiny Monuments: A Look at Snapshot Photography — Hannah Lifson
Slow Freeze — Laurah Norton Raines
Rara Avis: How to Tell a True Bird Story — Jackson Connor

POETRY:

What We’ve Forgotten — Lorraine Healy
Suite for the Twentieth Century (for Carole Lombard) + Suite for the Twentieth Century (for Marilyn Monroe) — Joseph Campana
Cretaceous Moth Trapped in Amber (Lament in Two Voices) + Palinode for Being Thirty-four — Katrina Vandenberg
Dreaming of Rome + While Reading Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on Human Dignity — John Ruff
My Older Brother, June Bug + Name I Will Never Forget — Jason Lee Brown
Die Fledermaus + Sisyphus in Paradise — G. C. Waldrep
Breathless, My Venom Spent, I Lay Down My Weapons + Horoscope — Sarah Murphy
What They Don’t Tell You About Breast-Feeding + What I’m Not
Telling You — Liz Scheid

ART:

Portraits in Plasma Judith Page

THEATRE:

Excerpt from Gint (an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt) by Will Eno

ETCETERA:

Conversation: Marion Ettlinger — Adam Braver
Journal: Black Rock City Journal — Len Goldberg
Journal: (Unexpurgated) Tour Journal Wesley Stace, John Wesley
Harding, and George Fisher (of Henley)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Mikhail Bulgakov — Robert Olen Butler
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara, by Joe Le Sueur — Allison Lynn
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson — Yael Goldstein
William Faulkner’s “The Bear” — Allen Morris Jones
The Promise of Failure, or Why You Should Drop Everything
You’re Doing and Read Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road
Right Now! — John Mc Nally
A Sport and a Pastime, by James Salter — Noy Holland
Happy All the Time: Loving Laurie Colwin — Margo Rabb
Kerouac’s On the Road at Fifty — Morris Dickstein
The Laws of Evening, by Mary Yukari Waters — Tod Goldberg
October Snow, by Samuel Reifler — Nelly Reifler
The Dog of the Marriage, by Amy Hempel — Perrin Ireland
More Real Than Reality: The Frozen Art of Alistair MacLeod — Jon Clinch
A Far Cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark — David Leavitt

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