Author: Post Road

FICTION:

Boombox and Neon Flowers, by Abby Savitch-Lew
The Reclamation Specialist, by Elizabeth Gonzalez
Riven, by Jeff Jones
Genetic Disorders, by Nicole Fix
Honeymoon in Beirut, by Stacy M. Tintocalis
Nine Inches, by Tom Perotta

NONFICTION:

Sweet Corn, by Bill Capossere
Field Studies, by Alexios Moore
Balakovo, by Natasha Lvovich
The Next Scott Nadelson, by Scott Nadelson
The Possibility of Ocean, by Michael Copperman

CRITICISM:

Rudolph Wurlitzer’s Infinite West, by Michael Miller

POETRY:

The Nice + Ghost in the Latrine, by Alex Lemon
To my father on the anniversary of his death + Autumn Poetica, by Gretchen Steele Pratt
People in History + The Devil’s Party, by Christian Barter
the ice fields + Against Plugging Away, by dawn lonsinger
After Reading about Cannibals + World, You Need More Calcium, by Hannah Craig
Property + Bickford Avenue, by Jenny Hanning
Local Carnival + The Blessing of the Animals, by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Self-Portrait in My Brother’s Bullet + Chipotle, by W. M. Lobko

ART:

Elizabeth Albert: Paintings, Introduction by Nelly Reifler

THEATRE:

Sumatra Mandheling, by Jakob Holder

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, by Bill Janovitz
Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires , by Dan Albergotti
Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge, by Rebecca Grodstein
Tony Hoagland’s Hard Rain, by Daisy Fried
My Name Is Red, by G. Xavier Robillard
Quickies! and The Dollar $tore, by Kathleen Rooney
Henry Hitchings’ The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, by Norm Shapiro
The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn – Lee Martin
Half & Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial+Bicultural, by Ru Freeman
The Island Itself, by Roger Fanning – Matthew Schwartz
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth. (Joachim Neugroschel, trans.) – Tony Eprile

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Elizabeth Graver:

BY’M BYE, by Alexandra Chasin
Dead Friends, by Alice Lichtenstein
Confirmation, by Lee Martin
If Laughter Were Blood, They Would Be Brothers, by Mark Brazaitis

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