ISSUES | spring 2014
37.1 (Spring 2014): "Kindred Issues"
Featuring the winners of the 2014 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and work by Kai Carlson-Wee, Kerry Hardie, Jill Kandel, David Lee, Monica McFawn, Brian Van Reet, Melissa Yancy, Dave Zoby, and an interview with Chang-Rae Lee.
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Features
Apr 28 2014
Good Fun: The Hotel Chelsea Drawings of Martin Kippenberger
German artist Martin Kippenberger died on March 7, 1997, of liver cancer, six weeks after diagnosis. He was forty-four. His early death turned him into a legend as his reputation… read more
Curio Cabinet
Apr 28 2014
Rough Sketches: The Drawings of Dylan Thomas
Around age six or seven, Dylan Thomas became obsessed with learning what made words “tick, beat, burn.” At the kitchen table in the Thomases’ suburban house in Wales, he tirelessly… read more
Interviews
Apr 28 2014
A Conversation with Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee’s novels are often peopled by characters who don’t quite fit into the cultures in which they find themselves. They are stories of cultural identity and assimilation, tales of… read more
Nonfiction
Apr 28 2014
Café Misfit
Suddenly one summer Joe and Oscar appeared in the Fan neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, with the idea that they could open a bistro on the ground floor of the old… read more
Nonfiction
Apr 28 2014
Paying the Piper
On April 1, 2002—April Fool’s Day—the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia. Euthanasia: the termination of a terminally sick individual’s life, for reasons of mercy,… read more
Fiction
Apr 28 2014
Consider this Case
This is the one day each year they come to him, enshrouded in blankets and footed rompers, matching sets of pink plaids and blue stars or T-shirts proudly declaring personal… read more
Fiction
Apr 28 2014
Eat the Spoil
After the day’s twenty-sixth mortar round fell on Camp War Eagle, some staff officer up at division headquarters finally saw fit to task a drone to search for whoever was… read more
Fiction
Apr 28 2014
The Chautauqua Sessions
My son, the drug addict, is about to tell a story. I know this because he’s closed his eyes and lifted his chin. I can tell because he’s laid his… read more
Foreword
Apr 28 2014
Kindred Issues
Our Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winner in poetry, Kai Carlson-Wee, focuses on the gritty, visceral details of growing up on the West Coast as two brothers scavenge grocery store… read more
Reviews
Apr 28 2014
Chimp Lit: In Search of Story in Four New Books
Chimp Lit: In Search of Story in Four New Books By: Erika Dreifus The Woman Who Lost Her Face: How Charla Nash Survived the World’s Most Infamous Chimpanzee Attack by… read more
Poetry
Apr 28 2014
Poetry Feature: David Lee
“Tough”
“An Elegiac Point of Honor”
“Ducktail”
Poetry
Apr 28 2014
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
“After You Died”
“Watching the Fire Take Your Body”
“The Door”
“Empty Space Poem, Eighteen Months”
“Between Here and There”
Poetry
Apr 28 2014
Poetry Feature: Kai Carlson-Wee
“Holes in the Mountain”
“Sunshine Liquidators”
“Jesse James Days”
“Bolinas”
“The Boy’s Head”