• author Bausch
  • “Hearing the spaced shots from the village they realized that the Germans were shooting the Jews...” MORE

  • author Tonge
  • “Men are so delicate, must be handled like blown glass, and given many portals...” MORE

  • author Bass
  • “Children move to town and are told not to play with ours because my name is in the paper again..." MORE

  • author Baines
  • “He’s not going to get back in bed with you or pretend this was about romance or, God forbid, love..." MORE

The Future of reading

In This Issue


  1. fiction
  2. Richard Bausch   Italy, Winter 1944
  3. Lisa Cupolo   Bread
  4. Jeanie Kortum   Stones
  5. Reese Kwon   Superhero
  6. Mattox Roesch    All the Way Rider

Poetry

Matthew Dickman, Mike O’Connor,
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
, Jennifer Tonge


  1. WORKS IN PROGRESS
  2. Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Marvin Bell,
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, Stuart Dybek, Jim Harrison, David Guterson, Min Jin Lee, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Ayelet Waldman, and many others.

  1. short shorts
  2. Barry Gifford   The Age of Fable
  3. Louise Jarvis Flynn   A Windfall
  4. Holly Wilson  Where’s the Beauty, Jimmy?

  1. nonfiction
  2. Lynn Ahrens  Going Hollywood
  3. Rick Bass  Oil
  4. Tom Grimes The Leash
  5. Donald Hall  Gaudeamus Igitur

  1. features
  2. Narrative Night Santa Fe
  3. Narrative Night San Francisco

  1. classics
  2. Stephen Crane  The Blue Hotel
  • author Ahrens
  • “Madonna steps to the microphone and calls the nominees’ names. She pronounces mine incorrectly...” MORE

  • author Grimes
  • “I’d known Charlie before I knew that each of us would one day die. So to me Charlie was immortal...” MORE

  • author Rios
  • “But what are ghosts if not that: They are what’s inside us, after all. They are what we keep...” MORE

  • author Dickman
  • “Let's walk down to the river. Let’s bless the paper boats and turn the whole thing into wine...” MORE