ISSUES | winter 1987

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10.1 (Winter 1987)

Featuring the work of Don Bogen, Michelle Boisseau, Louis Budd, Jack Driscoll, Michel Englebert, Carol Frost,  C.W. Gusewelle, Ehud Havazelet, Stephen Haven, Larry Kramer, Ellen Lesser, Lisa Lewis, Kathy Miller, Michael Pettit, James Ragan, Louis Simpson, Gerold Spath, Jack Stephens, Mark Twain, Michael Ullman, Jon Veinberg, Roger Weingarten, Gary Young, Barry Yourgrau…an interview with Charles Wright…and a feature by R.D. King.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE

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Fiction

Dec 01 1987

How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson

Thomas Furlong was a grizzled and sour bachelor of fifty who lived solitary and alone in a log house which stood remote and lonely in the middle of a great cornfield at the base of the rising spurs of the mountains. At two o’clock on a certain morning he came in out of a drizzling rain, lit his tallow dip, pulled down the cheap oiled shade of the single window, punched up his fire, took off his steaming coat, hung it before the fire to dry, sat down, spread his damp hands in front of the blaze, and said to himself–

“It’s a puzzle. I wonder what ever did become of her. Seven hours. Maybe she ain’t as much of a fool as people think.” He sat silently considering the puzzle for some moments, then added, with energy, “Damn her! Damn her whole tribe!”

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Fiction

Dec 01 1987

A House and Its Neighbors: A Cautionary Tale

On the northern edge of the woods, just short of the municipal forest of S, a town whose citizens were, for the most part and by tradition, complacent and well-to-do, stood a nearly square little house on underpinnings of heavy oak beams. This house was built of spruce boards originally soaked in ox blood. Its south side, with a door and two tiny windows, faced the woods and was shaded by towering firs. There were two more windows on the north side, and one each in the smaller side walls. The whole thing was topped off by a nearly flat tile roof whose eaves extended not much more than a foot beyond the low walls all around. This little house had been built by a certain Egloff, who had done menial work in the big chemical plant in the town of R for over fifty years.

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Nonfiction

Dec 01 1987

An End of Loving The Land

For as long as I have been acquianted there, more than half my life now, people of that country neighborhood have nurtured their idea of the panther.

No one I’ve ever known has actually seen the creature. But nearly everyone has a relative or friend who knows a man–nameless, perhaps, but not to be disbelieved–who only last week met the thing in the lights of his pickup truck on some night lane as it bounded across between two fingers of the woods

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Nonfiction

Dec 01 1987

The Recomposition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Ten years ago my title might have been catchy or at least puzzling. These days, anyone who keeps up with the trends in criticism assumes that I will somehow play upon the principle–most commonly associated with Stanley Fish–that the meaning of a text “has no effective existence outside of its realization in the mind of a reader,” that each reader creates the text during the process of absorbing the words that an author has strung together.

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Fiction

Dec 01 1987

The Boys from This School

He is one of the boys from this school so he wears a green military uniform and has a shaved head. He is a freshman and his name is James. He stands at the door of Kelly’s office to talk to her after class. As she looks up at him she runs her hand through her short blond hair; she always wonders if her students think she looks attractive or merely curious in the flight jacket, trousers, and jumpboots because she would rather look like them than like the few older female faculty in their skirts and pumps.