ISSUES | fall 2000
23.2 (Fall 2000)
Featuring work by Steve Almond, Amy Quan Berry, Ed Falco, Joanna Fried, Robert Gibb, Launa Lorenz Hall, Patricia Henley, Michele Morano, Danielle Ofri, Susan Vreeland, Jane Wampler, Katharine Whitcomb, Leslie Wooten… and an interview with John Updike.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Found Text
Jun 01 2000
The Letters of Jack London to Charles Warren Stoddard
The full text of this feature is not currently available online. The following letters and preceding photograph are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. For the… read more
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Eva's Breasts
She opened a shopping bag and pulled out a doll’s arm and leg. She placed the plastic body parts on the desk, along with inflatable lips and a plaster cast of teeth the orthodontist had given her when she was thirteen. The last object she retrieved from her bag was a malleable breast she had stolen from her gynecologist’s office. The breast was a tool the doctor used to show patients how to conduct proper breast exams.
Poetry
Jun 01 2000
Poetry Feature: Amy Quan Barry
Featuring the following poems: Child of the Enemy Intermurals Whitsunday “Who Lit This Flame in Us?” “If I Don’t Meet You in This Life, Let Me Feel the Lack”
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Of These Stones
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Trip
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Geek Player, Love Slayer
Poetry
Jun 01 2000
Poetry Feature: Jane Wampler
Featuring the following poems: Horse, I Reason Dance for Me What Memorial Would You Have Wanted to See? The Ordinary
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
The Pleasure of Pears
Interviews
Jun 01 2000
An Interview with John Updike
This interview was conducted by Will Hochman and Jan Ellen Spiegel in Colorado Springs in late 1998. The text of this interview is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 2000
About Wayne
Some Aprils in upstate New York school was canceled because of snow, and my brother and I imagined what life would be like if summer never came again. There were a lot of years like that, but I can only think of two amazingly warm Aprils, and this, the year of Wayne, is the second. It’s late afternoon, and I’m sitting in the woods out back, on a log at the edge of a small stream, thighs pulled close to my chest. I’ve been here for a while and have no intention of moving yet, so determined am I to show everyone. Right now there’s no one around to show, but I lay my cheek against my knee anyway, in the pose of someone wronged.
Poetry
Jun 01 2000
Poetry Feature: Katherine Whitcomb
* Chorus
* Separation
* Puzzle at 30,000 Feet
* Matchflame of the Ego, Moth
* Departed Cordelia
Poetry
Jun 01 2000
Poetry Feature: Robert Gibb
Featuring the following poems: The Book of the Dead Sifting Through the Remains
Fiction
Jun 01 2000
Trainee Marissa Haynes Will Now Perform the Fear of Heights Test
Nonfiction
Jun 01 2000