Author

M. G. Stephens
M. G. Stephens is the author of eighteen books, including the novels Season at Coole and The Brooklyn Book of the Dead; the essay collections The Dramaturgy of Style and Green Dreams, winner of the AWP award in creative nonfiction; and the memoirs Lost in Seoul and Where the Sky Ends. He recently completed a new book of fiction, from which this story is taken, and a new nonfiction work about downtown New York in the 1960s. [2015]
CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction
Jul 22 2017
Hampstead Road
Eileen knew the drill. The phlebotomist looked for a good vein, would finally give up, and then she would use the one Eileen had suggested originally, the big vein at… read more

Fiction
Jul 14 2015
The Prodigal Daughter
At the time of her mother’s death, Eileen had called her once a week from London. She even wrote the odd letter now and then, getting into a correspondence with… read more

Fiction
Apr 16 2015
A Day in Court
These men looked as rumpled and sleazy as characters out of a Raymond Chandler novel. Talk about Jarndyce v Jarndyce, nothing had changed in this world in over a hundred… read more

Nonfiction
Dec 01 2009
Francis Bacon's Studio
Art is a game of light and shadows, and the studio was a place of such chiaroscuro. The shadows were filled with an assortment of objects: a Rembrandt pastel set, a thousand little colorful chips of crayons and chalk in a wooden box, or a Maxwell House coffee jar stuffed with brushes. Bacon often didn’t bother to clean the brushes after he used them, rendering them useless thereafter. Next to these discarded brushes, cardboard boxes lay in heaps, often thrown into the studio after the contents, bottles of champagne—Francis’s drug of choice—had been consumed elsewhere in the house. The champagne boxes were then used to store photographs. The boxes, brimful of photographs of friends and lovers, became painted over and waterlogged.