Author: Post Road

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

CONTRIBUTORS

FICTION:

Possum, by Mary Morris
The Lunch, by Alex Kuo
Bennett’s Cheap Catharsis
O Saddam!, by Rusty Barnes
Victor, by Michael Czyzniejewski Evan Lavender-Smith
Conquest, Tourism, and Eternal Canadian Rapture, by Stephen Ausherman

NONFICTION:

The Illusionof Symmetry, by Logan Perkes
Redemption Window, by Eve Abrams
Three Short Stories, by Michael Hearst
Writing Him Off, by Mike Scalise

CRITICISM:

The Kin-der-Kids, Little Orphan Annie, and Masters of American Comics, by Shannon Connelly

POETRY:

Track 4: Reflections as performed by Diana Ross + Track 1: Lush Life, by Jericho Brown
The Groaning Cows + The Story of the Stone, by Craig Morgan Teicher
Soap Sirens + Advice for a Soap Siren, by Meghan Dunn
Baggage Claim + Those Were Desert Years, by Debra Gitterman
Femmáge + Afterimage from a Train, by Maria Halovanic
Ontogeny + Straddling Fences, by Nickole Brown
Google + Kelp, by Jeffrey Yang

ART:

Photographs — Ronnie E. Maher

ETCETERA:

Conversation:Phillip Lopate, by Adam Braver
Note: Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell
Lecture: The American Fear of Literature, Nobel Lecture delivered by Sinclair Lewis, December 12, 1930
Long Stories, by Kevin Canty
Index: Archives of Story Magazine and Story Press
Questionnaire: Jennifer Egan

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, by Nathaniel Bellows
Jill McCorkle, byJohn D’Agata
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, by Elisabeth Brink
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy — Robert Anthony Siegel
A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown
A Genre You Haven’t Loved Enough
Various — Mameve Medwed
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews Jami Attenberg
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury — Sam Weller
The Complete Tales of Merry Gold by Kate Bernheimer — Lydia Millet
We Didn’t Come Here for This: A Memoir in Poetry by William B. Patrick — Kathleen Aguero
Various, by Quinn Dalton
Size Matters, byDebra Spark

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

FICTION:

Alabama, by Murray Dunlap
Famous Cake, by Kim Drain
From Rune to Ruin: An Alphabet (Excerpts), by Miranda F. Mellis
Dream Trailers, by Julia Slavin
Nothing to Look at Here, by Richard Hoffman

NONFICTION:

Ghost of Ten, by Shara Sinor
A Hundred Years at 15, by Xujun Eberlein
Down in the Valley, by Kevin Lutz
Cut to the Chase, by Sophie Beck

CRITICISM:

One Hundred Demons and Self-Representation, by Vincent Trivett

POETRY:

Gerhard Richter’s Motor Boat (First Version) [Motorboot (erste assung)] + Nine Rhythms in Nine Days: A-Frame Near Sisters, Oregon, by Anthony Swofford
My Mayakovsky + Crime Spree, by Michael Dumanis
All the Trees of the Field Shall Clap Their Hands + Our Completion: Oil on Wood: Tino Rodríguez: 1999, by Eduardo C. Corral
Face For Radio + Quick Study, by Dora Malech

ART:

David Spiher: A New York Painter Frank Holliday

THEATRE:

The Dorsal Striatum, by Trish Harnetiaux

ETCETERA:

Journal: Erasing Gender: A Woman’s Journey through Men’s Lockup, by Tracy Slater
Fictional Essay: John Berryman, b. 1914, by Baron Wormser
Conversation: Mark Strand Michael O’Keefe
Index: First Publications
Twenty Questions: David Mamet

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples — Lowry Pei
Reading the Future: Twelve Writers From Irelandin Conversation with Mike Murphy edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain — Suzanne Strempek Shea
The Long March — Xu Xi
Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations by Sam Hamill — Fred Marchant
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor — Alyson Hagy
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy — Alan Davis
Sex and [Auto] Genocide: The Sluts by Dennis Cooper & Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray — T Cooper
“Are we not of interest to each other?”: the Sublime in Elizabeth Alexander’s American Sublime — Shara McCallum
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark — Brock Clarke
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and George Eliot’s Later Novels — Monica Wood
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping — A. Manette Ansay
Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade — Jessica Treadway
Kill Fee Lit—After Reading George Gissing’s New Grub Street — Mike Albo
On Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, or How I Got “Sheeped” — Peter Rock

ART:

Erin Cowgill: Nations’ Cup

CRITICISM:

On the Dating Prospects of Feminist Daughters, or Dear Maureen Manjula Martin

ETCETERA:

Reprint: What’s A Story, by Leonard Michaels
Tour Diary: The Diviners, North America, 2005, by Rick Moody
Libretto: Tonya and Nancy: The Opera, by Elizabeth Searle
Report: Vegas Valley Book Festival, by Tod Goldberg
Twenty Questions: Maria Flook

FICTION:

Gold Firebird, by Peter Rock
The Boardwalk, by Brian Booker
Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (b.1967–d.2000), by Michael Kimball
Fisher Cat, by Seth Harwood
On the History of a Backgammon Board, by Paul Yoon

NONFICTION:

A Long Time Ago It Rained, by Louis E. Bourgeois
Spotlighting, by Ira Sukrungruang
The Faith of Our Fathers, by Rebecca Dickson
Blood and Luck, by Becky Bradway

POETRY:

I Spy, by Elizabeth Powell
Non Sum Dignus + Ard Na Mara, by Fred Marchant
July 19, 1962: Susanna Martin + September 18, 1755: Mark and Phillis, by Jill McDonough
Lullabye for My Sister + Feast of All Wounds, by G.C. Waldrep
Reading an Ex-Lover’s First Novel + HWY 51, by Ashley Capps
Vertical Hold + The World as Seen Through a Glass of Ice Water, by Dobby Gibson

RECOMMENDATION:

John Dollar and Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins — Susan Choi
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling — Susan Perabo
Lawrence Weschler’s Vermeer in Bosnia — Rachel Kadish
War and Peace as Hypertext — Mary Grimm
Excitable Women, Damaged Men by Robert Boyers — Adam Braver
The works of Dean Frisbie — Anthony Weller
The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell — Elissa Schappell
“The Ordinary Son” by Ron Carlson Lisa — Selin Davis
“The Bound Man,” from Ilse Aichinger’s The Bound Man — Naama Goldstein
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — Joe Ann Hart
Blue Angel by Francine Prose — Greg Williams
Birds of America by Mary McCarthy — Perri Klass
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy — Andrea Seigel

THEATRE:

The Dinner Party Jason Flores-Williams

ART:
Andrew Richmond: Photographs

CRITICISM:

The Omission of Comics, by Ralph McGinnis

ETCETERA:

Tour: The Dostoevsky Walk, by James Boobar
Missives: Four Ways of Trying to Hold onto It, by Paul Salopek
Index: Characters from The Stories of John Cheever
Essay: An Inquiry into the Psychological Roots of America’s Death Fetish, or, Where’d You Hide the Body? by Steve Almond
Twenty Questions: Jonathan Ames

FICTION:

All or Nothing at The Fabergé, by Peter Grandbois
Drive-in Dan Pope
Reruns Never Lie, by David McGlynn
The Magic Box, by Robert Anthony Siegel
Coati Mundi, by Derek White

NONFICTION:

A Year on the Prairie, by Natania Rosenfeld
Trial by Trash, by Jon Stattmann
Psalm for Rafi, by Elana Zaiman
She, Under the Umbrella, Went, by Melissa Haley
Walking Backwards in Takamatsu, by Linda Lancione Moyer

POETRY:

Indelible + Uninvited Guest, by Elizabeth Knapp
God on Side + So Dirty a Smile, by Brian Engel-Fuentes
Proof + The Lesson of the Birds, by Jason Stumpf
Cinéma Vérité + Double Feature, by David Semanki
New York Selves: An Elegy + God Machine on Adversity, by Maria Hummel
Early Medieval + Dream on his Birthday, by Katharine Whitcomb

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson — Jean Monahan
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault and The Tea Ceremony: The Uncollected Writings of Gina Berriault — Daphne Kalotay
Other People’s Houses and Her First American by Lore Segal — Alice Mattison
First Novels — Ann Hood
A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price — Leah Hager Cohen
Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov — Elizabeth Cox
The Lost Stradivarius, Moonfleet and The Nebuly Coat: The Abnormal Romances of John Meade Falkner — Wesley Stace
Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird: A Memoir by Doug Crandell — Cathy Day
The Stories of John Cheever — Jessica Shattuck
A Scot’s Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon David — Anthony Durham
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin — Merrill Feitell
Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns — Suzanne Berne
Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser, Search Party by William Matthews and Jack and Other New Poems by Maxine Kumin — Wesley McNair
The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins — Ben Jones

THEATRE:

The Bank, by Steven Schutzman