Author: Post Road

ART:

Mark Mastroianni: Paintings

CRITICISM:

Matthew Barney versus Donkey Kong, by Wayne Bremser

ETCETERA:

Soliloquy: Overheard: Wake Up New York City, September 2001, by Andrey Gritsman
Libretto: Hell, by Eileen Myles
Bibliography: Joyce Carol Oates
Elegy: Falling Objects: Chicago, by Gail Siegel
Essay: Horrible Endings: My Brother and The Complete Works of Saki — Randi Triant
Twenty Questions: Tom Perotta

FICTION:

Holiday from Women, by Barry Gifford
Unheimlech, by Joseph Salvatore
Now It’s Clean, by Nina de Gramont
Still Wreck, by D. Gatling Price
The Other Woman, by David Roth

NONFICTION:

The Dogcatcher Hates Politics, by Matt Roberts
Visit with a Forgotten People, by K. M. Huber
Body and Soul, by Maria Lauenstein

POETRY:

in sales + past the bitter end, by John Colburn
Those Georgia Sundays + Litany, by Patrick Phillips
First Why + And How, by Sharon Dolin
Below the Nearer Sky + Silt, by Alex Lemon
Casa Blanca + Ankerplads, by Henrik Nordbrandt, translated by Patrick Phillip

RECOMMENDATIONS:

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus — Rick Moody
The Dangerous Husband by Jane Shapiro — Michael Griffith
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert — Marcelle Clements
Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell — Don Lee
After Long Silence by Helen Fremont — Richard Hoffmann
The FICTION of J.F. Powers — X. J. Kennedy
Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show — Steve Yarbrough
Willard and His Bowling Trophies, A Perverse Mystery by Richard Brautigan — Brad Watson
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut — Mark Lindquist
Olt by Kenneth Gangemi — Vendela Vida
Trash Sex Magic by Jennifer Stevenson — Audrey Niffenegger
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake by Breece D’J Pancake and Blinking with Fists by Billy Corgan — J. T. Leroy
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter — Dan Pope

THEATRE:

Jerry Hunt: Four Video Translations — David Ryan

CONTRIBUTORS

CRITICISM:

“The Americans Who Matter”: Michael Moore’s White Liberal Racism in Bowling for Columbine, by Taro Nettleton

FICTION:

A Couple of Polaroids, by Alan Tinkler
Simply Natural, by Patricia Bjorklund
Theatre of the Cruel, by Eugenio Volpe
Late, by Robert Mentzer

ART:

Michela Griffo: Paintings and Drawings Introduction by Kathleen Bitetti

NONFICTION:

Have You Read My Manuscript? Thomas Washington 89 My Life of Crime, by Rory Laverty
Relief: Afghanistan, 2001, by J. Malcolm Garcia
Southern Culture on the Skids, by Ed Tarkington

POETRY:

Botany Notes + No Child Will Choose It, by Amy Beeder
Logbook + Elm & Cancer, by Josie Rawson
Self Portrait as Video Installation + December Sonnet, by Rick Barot
De Se Ipso + New Labors, by Janusz Szuber
After a Rest: Palimpsest + Echo Digression, by Monica Ferrell

THEATRE:

Drop It, by Michael Collins

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Futility by William Gerhardie Heidi — Jon Schmidt
North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent — Jason Flores-Williams
“The Return” by Andrei Platonov from The Return and Other Stories — Katherine Shonk
What’s It All About: A Novel of Life. Love and Key Lime Pie by William Van Wert — Lisa Borders
Polite Society by Melanie Sumner — Alden Jones
Ask the Dust by John Fante — Rebecca Donner
Time’s Witness by Michael Malone — Tim Cockey
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates — Michael Rosovsky
The Single Girl Goes to Town by Jean Baer and Free Books, Baltimore — Josephine Bergin

ETCETERA:

A Note: E.A.P., by Rick Barot Peter LaSalle
A Semiotic Reverie: At the Sign of the Hand
Document: Taco Bell Receipt, by Rick Barot Tristan Davies
Document: Salinbger v. Random House, Inc., 811 F.2d 90 (2nd Cir. 1987)
Translation: Four Short Poems by J.V. Foix, by Rick Barot Susan Lantz

POETRY:

Device for Burning Bees and Sugar + It’s Your Turn to Do the Milking, Father Said, by Mark Wunderlich
Good Science + Heart, by Stephanie Pippin
The Wings of Butterflies + The Eyes of Fish, by Jude Nutter
And the Ship Sails On + Beckett’s Endgame, by Joel Brouwer
Servant + Servant, by Emma Ramey
Excision + Limb Replantation, Failed, by Ander Monson

ART:

Daniel Hill: Paintings — Introduction by Lacy Schutz
Angie Drakopoulos: Paintings — Introduction by Ian Bickford

FICTION:

Some Stories Are Parables, But, by Brian Lennon
August, by H. H. LeCraw
Flap, by Rick Moody
Travelogue, by Vincent Standley
The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face, by Tom Perrotta

NONFICTION:

Yellow Pajamas, by Derek Lance Furr
Two Birds, by Jim Dameron
Hitting Harmony, by Nathan Ihara
Blue Window, by Liesl Schwabe

THEATRE:

Scenes From the Life and Times of Little Billy Liver, by Dennis DiClaudio

CRITICISM:

Streetstyle: Skateboarding, Spatial Appropriation, and Dissent, by Taro Nettleton

RECOMMENDATIONS:

An American Memory and I Am Zoe Handke by Eric Larsen — Virginia Holman
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupéry — Pete Hausler
Parts & Pieces: Sven Birkerts, A. Manette Ansay, Steve Stern, Christopher Tilghman, Elinor Lipman and Amy Hempel — Risa Miller
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche and Stick and Rudder: An Explanation on the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche — Maria Flook
Headless by Benjamin Weissman — Amy Gerstler
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson — Neal Pollack
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather — Mary Morris
Some Things About Kevin Brockmeier — Thisbe Nissen
The Life to Come and Other Stories by E. M. Forster — Christopher Castellani
Truman Capote, Richard Ford and John Irving Lewis Robinson 155 Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr and Of Kinkajous, Capybaras, Horned Beetles, Seledangs, and the Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds, and Plants of Our World by Jeanne K. Hanson and Deane Morrison — Gwendolen Gross
Words—Lean, Lyrical, Authentic—Bring Children From Shadows — Rachel Solar-Tuttle
Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz — David Ryan
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner — Jaime Clarke

ETCETERA:

Litany: Warnings — Amy Kreines
Reminiscence: Joseph Brodsky — Sven Birkerts
Index: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Tom Murphy
Essay: Losing the Virginity of Time: The Literary Coordinates of Bruno Schulz and Isaac Babel — Ryan Boudinot
Interview: Elizabeth Searle — Sherry Ellis

POETRY:

A Confederacy + Mr. Sweatner’s Parade — David Daniel
The Nineteenth-Century Novel + The Nineteenth-Century Novel II — Eve Grubin
A Hunger So Honed + Self Portrait as the Letter Y — Tracy K. Smith
The Lais of Lost Long Days + Stripped from the Waist Up, Love Olena — Kalytiak Davis
Cellist + Dogs Resembling Their Owner — Peter Jay Shippy

Three Months, No Kidding + Salt — Alison Stine

NONFICTION:

Sea Monsters — Kate Crane
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea — Larry O’Connor
Third Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: Late Spring, 1972 — Chad Faries
City Storms — Jeffrey M. Bockman

CRITICISM:

On the Aesthetic Agenda of the Antiwar Movement, by Lori Cole

ART:

Mary Armstrong: Paintings — Introduction by Claude Cernuschi
Stoney Conley: Paintings — Introduction by Claude Cernuschi

FICTION:

Dream Children — Edith Pearlman
Since It’s You — Peter Brown
What We Do — Mat Johnston
Untitled as of Yet — Sarah Nankin
Activist — Andrew Richmond

THEATRE:

Note to Post Road Readers — Jonathan Ames

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Middlemarch by George Eliot — Donna Morrissey
The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar — Henry Presente
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison — Karl Iagnemma
Plant Life by Pamela Duncan — Lynn Pruett
Antarctica by Claire Keegan — Michael Lowenthal
Robert Walser — Kevin Canty
Open Doors by Leonardo Sciascia — Peter Orner
Michael Byers and The Coast of Good Intentions — Roy Parvin
True Grit by Charles Portis — Tom Franklin
Three Australian Novelists — Sabina Murray

ETCETERA:

Index: Lolita A-Z
Interview: April Bernard — Reb Livingston
Reprint: Henry James on Turgenev

CRITICISM:

Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body, by Eric Tyrone McLeod

POETRY:

Notebook + Bones, by Aaron Baker
The Stray + Pulling into Morning Sophie, by Cabot Black
Estimated Drift + Its Owners Became a Dim, by Margaret Funkhouser
Gleaners + Scarification, by James Hoch
In My Dream I’ve Become a Great Trumpeter + The Fish Hawk at Sanderling, by Sebastian Matthews
The Simple Machines + Happily Ever After, by Laurel Snyder

THEATRE:

The Empirical Society, by John Moran

ART:

Michael Ayala: Photographs Introduction by Tim Malzhan

FICTION:

Animal Hater, by Samuel Ligon
What Our Father Is Here To Tell Us, by Peter Markus
The Artist and His Sister Gerti, by Christine Schutt
The Business of Leaving, by Felicia C. Sullivan
Well-To-Do-Person, by Diane Williams
What God Sees, by Scott D. Pomfret
Desembre, by D.E. Steward

NONFICTION:

Waiting Room Stacia J. N. Decker
Divers Weights and Divers Measures Patrick Madden

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke. Translated by Ralph Mannheim — Richard McCann
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski — Steve Almond
The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson — Barry Gifford
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell — Joanna Hershon
P.G.Wodehouse — A.E. Hotchner
Sacred and Vulgar: The Influences of Flannery O’Connor on the Illustrations for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible — Barry Moser
All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom (and other books that yearn) — Ben Schrank
Revisiting Old Flames of Literature — Mako Yoshikawa
Recommendations — Alex Beam
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison — Lise Haines

ETCETERA:

Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses — Mark Twain
Journal: Berlin, July 18 – August 11, 2002 — Josip Novakovich

CONTRIBUTORS

CRITICISM:

Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs, by Lauren Sandler

POETRY:

Twin Cities, No Sign + Before, by Jenny Browne
It’s Late Here How Light Is Late Once You’ve Fallen + Elegy to the Last Breath, by Katie Ford
Shadow of the Valley + How To Get The Love You Want, by Sarah Fox
Graffiti + The Chain, by Brian Komei Dempster
Marginalia + Divination, by Claire Hero
Closing Time + Quarry, by Elizabeth Scanlon

THEATRE:

Beyond Recognition: A Monologue in 12 Sections, by Norman Lock

FICTION:

The Ciné, by Barry Gifford
Scar, by Robert Lopez
Hot Waters, by Paul Eberly
Easter Weekend, by Kenneth Cook
Sugar, by Nelly Reifler
Bargain Donuts, by Chloe Bland

NONFICTION
Apology to Henry Aaron, by Steven Church
A Letter to the Bionic Man, by Ashley Shelby

ART:

Takahiro Kimura: Destruction and Construction of the Human Face
Introduction by Chris Elam

RECOMMENDATIONS:

John Griesemer on Ernest Hebert
Julia Alvarez’s Recommended Reading
Julianna Baggot on Mary Morrissey, Olena Kalytiak Davis, and Marisa de los Santos
Janet Fitch on The Memory Room, by Mary Rakow
Elizabeth Graver on A Good House, by Bonnie Burnard and Blindness, by José Saramango
Edward Hoagland on The Circus of Dr. Lao, by Charles G. Finney
Tim Parrish on Head, by William Tester
Michael Moon’s The Memoir Bank
Stewart O’Nan on The True Detective, by Theodore Weesner
Tom Perrotta on Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Holy Bible: King James Version — Mary Sullivan

ETCETERA:

Interview: Jonathan Lethem
Digression: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne, by John Wesley Harding