ISSUES | fall 2012
35.3 (Fall 2012): "Risk"
Featuring work by Lauren Acampora, Michael Byers, John J. Clayton, Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, Kate Rutledge Jaffe, Margaree Little, Carolyn Miller, Christopher Robinson, Tryfon Tolides… as well as a look at the life of Louise Brooks and an interview with T.R. Hummer.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Dec 10 2012
Not One of Us: Four Books that Explore the Implication of Class in America
Featuring reviews of: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray. Crown Forum, 2012. Class Matters. Correspondents of The New York Times. Times Books, 2005. Class: A Guide… read more
Found Text
Dec 10 2012
The Thoroughly Modern World of Louise Brooks
This Found Text feature looks at the life of silent film icon, Louise Brooks. It is not currently available online.
Interviews
Dec 10 2012
A Conversation with T.R. Hummer
A poem is a score for consciousness (“score” as in “musical score”). In textual terms, consciousness conveys itself as what fiction writers call “point of view.” So far so good.… read more
Poetry
Dec 10 2012
Poetry Feature: Tryfon Tolides
“The Day before the Big Dance”
“West Texas near Dark”
“Spring in the Village”
“Things to Do”
“List and Process”
‘From “Standards in Norway”‘
“Afternoon”
Poetry
Dec 10 2012
Poetry Feature: Margaree Little
“The Calling”
“What Was Missing”
“Map”
“Using It”
“Revision”
Poetry
Dec 10 2012
Poetry Feature: Christopher Robinson
“Borges”
“Shackleton”
“Columbus”
“Stevenson”
“Geometry and Angling”
Nonfiction
Dec 10 2012
My War Zone
When I was growing up war always hovered somewhere in the background. I was born after the Second World War ended, but for a long time, at least until the… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 10 2012
Arts and Science
I was half in love with Tom McAfee before I ever met him because Shirley Tarbell, my friend from Waynesville High School, who taught me to inhale and lent me… read more
Fiction
Dec 10 2012
The Numbers Man
Instead of setting his alarm Paul Lake decided to stay up all night. He was fifteen and had stayed up all night twice before for no reason, daring himself, mostly,… read more
Fiction
Dec 10 2012
Trickster
I met the trickster in a chat room when I was sixteen. Turned out he was in high school with a friend of mine. She didn’t know him, she said.… read more
Fiction
Dec 10 2012
Swarm
The new house was a horror. Martin and his wife remarked on it each time they turned onto Minuteman Road and were struck by the bald ostentation. The house, constructed… read more
Fiction
Dec 10 2012
Jennifer, Naked
Jennifer, my then wife Jennifer, sat naked on the beach sheet in her lean, youthful beauty. The rest of us—me and my friend and colleague Sam Franklin and Elsa, his… read more
Foreword
Dec 10 2012
Risk
“I didn’t know it was impossible, that’s why I did it.” —Jean Cocteau Recently I visited the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam, after having reread… read more