ISSUES | winter 2013
36.4 (Winter 2013): "Falling Man"
Featuring work by Jennifer Atkinson, Michelle Boisseau, Jonathan Fink, Seth Fried, John Fulton, Jane Gillette, Andrew Mulvania, Nick Neely, Sarah T. Schwab, Kristine Somerville, Daniel Talbott, Alexander Teague and Hal Walling.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Jan 31 2014
Sylvia Plath: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Sylvia Plath: A Fifty-Year Retrospective By: Andrew Mulvania The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 50th Anniversary Edition, Faber & Faber, 2013, pp., £7.99, paper American Isis: The Life and Art… read more
Interviews
Jan 31 2014
A Conversation with Daniel Talbott
Sarah Schwab: Can you talk a little about how you started writing and what advice you have for other first-time writers? Daniel Talbott: It’s funny, because I still think of… read more
Features
Jan 31 2014
The Logic of Dreams: The Life and Work of Ruth St. Denis
In 1924, modern dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis assembled all of her “Denishawners” in an empty theater in New York City for announcements about the upcoming season. Seventeen-year-old Louise Brooks,… read more
Foreword
Jan 31 2014
Falling Man
Gregg Easterbrook describes a seemingly puzzling fact about the condition of people now living in the United States and Europe. In many undeniable ways we are living in a better… read more
Nonfiction
Jan 31 2014
The Edge Effect: Surfing with Peregrine Falcons in La Jolla
In early June, I found myself trailing Will Sooter to his office. Past the University of California, San Diego, we turned a corner, then another, onto toney La Jolla Farms… read more
Nonfiction
Jan 31 2014
The Dreamers
My husband and I have lived here for forty years, and this is the craziest thing we have ever seen,” Jodi, a seventy-five-year-old cosmetology instructor from Midland College, says from… read more
Fiction
Jan 31 2014
The Evil Tyrant of Ten Kurk
The tyrant in his fortress He is seated on a throne, looking bored. An empty hall lit dimly by high sconces. The stone walls and vaulted ceilings amplify every sound.… read more
Fiction
Jan 31 2014
What Kent Boyd Had
And then, in his midforties, just as he started to feel slower in his limbs, the mornings seeming to drag, the darkness seeming to fall sooner each day, even in… read more
Fiction
Jan 31 2014
Meditation XXXI: On Sustenance
Since there’s only one scene in this story and it takes place at the McDonald’s out on McGalliard Road in Muncie, Indiana, I’ll first kill a little time discussing food,… read more
Fiction
Jan 31 2014
Salvage
I didn’t see the cop car parked near Scotty’s house. Its interiors were off, there were no lamps around. After picking up I’d driven maybe a hundred feet when suddenly… read more
Poetry
Jan 31 2014
Poetry Feature: Michelle Boisseau
“I Ate My Mate”
“Children Visiting Hospice”
“Nothing Is the Most We Ever Know”
“Wax for the Sleigh Runners”
“Head of Steam”
“The Voyage of the Sentence Begins”
“Happy Birthday to You, You Live in a Zoo”
Poetry
Jan 31 2014
Poetry Feature: Jennifer Atkinson
“At the Chernobyl Power Plant Eco-reserve”
“Landscape with Translucent Moon”
“The Understory”
“Landscape with Peregrine Falcon and Hart Crane”
“Refingering Chords for “Blackberry Blossom”
Poetry
Jan 31 2014
Poetry Feature: Alexandra Teague
“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West”
“Repeater”
“Sand Creek Testimony”
“Sara Winchester Reads Great Expectations”
“My Mother Reads to Her Daughters: Great Expectations”