ISSUES | summer 2013
36.2 (Summer 2013): "Ghosts"
Featuring work by Aaron Baker, Michael Benedict, Peter LaSalle, Peter Levine, Nathan Oates, Dan O’Brien, Pamela Painter, Peter Selgin, and Diane Seuss… as well as an interview with Karen Russell and a look at the art of Houdini.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Jul 22 2013
Stories of Distant Lands
Featuring reviews of:
Sidewalk Dancing by Letitia Moffitt
Ayiti by Roxane Gay
How Shall We Kill the Bishop? and Other Stories by Lily Mabura
The Beach at Galle Road by Joanna Luloff
Interviews
Jul 22 2013
A Conversation with Karen Russell
You have this cheery happy-hour denial that at any moment a wave or hurricane is going to come and erase the territory you once knew. When we were kids, Hurricane… read more
Art
Jul 22 2013
Straight Magic: Houdini and the Art of Illusion
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Poetry
Jul 22 2013
Poetry Feature: Diane Seuss
“Oh no, it’s one of those times”
“I snapped it over my knee like kindling.”
“There’s Some I Just Won’t Let Die”
“Free Beer”
Poetry
Jul 22 2013
Poetry Feature: Aaron Baker
“Dark Matter”
“February Nocturne”
“The Old Nerve”
“Rural Especial Scene”
“After”
Poetry
Jul 22 2013
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Remembers the Escape”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson in the Colonies”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Mountain Gorillas”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Gives the Poet Some Advice”
“The War ReporterPaul Watson Interviews the Negotiator”
Nonfiction
Jul 22 2013
Au Train de Vie: That Voice You Hear When Traveling
I’ll be honest. I had a couple of large sadnesses to confront that summer in Paris. So I suppose it wasn’t surprising that it repeatedly happened. This essay is not… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 22 2013
My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts
Here was the New York City I once fell hard for, the city of my childhood and young dreams. And though the menu belonged to a vanished time, still, it… read more
Fiction
Jul 22 2013
Only Child
I was just two years old when he was killed and so have no memories of my own. Perhaps faint traces and sensations. A strong arm around my shoulders. Skin… read more
Fiction
Jul 22 2013
Last Flight
At first he didn’t acknowledge her. He crossed his legs and looked out the window where the fog enveloped the fuselage completely. It seemed remarkable that they were going to… read more
Fiction
Jul 22 2013
The Brochures
“It says that the porch we’re sitting on is one eighth of a mile long.” Gordon gave the inn’s brochure a little wave but didn’t pass it to his wife,… read more
Fiction
Jul 22 2013
Mile Point Road
The lake house, when they finally arrived after the drive from New York that took almost twice as long as the computer had promised, looked nothing like what Matt had… read more
Foreword
Jul 22 2013
Ghosts
In her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion describes in a straightforward, reportorial style what happened when her husband, John Gregory Dunne, died at the end of December,… read more