Author

Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories. His essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. He teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and is Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Jul 24 2018

The Loneliest Moon

One of the most pernicious stages of insomnia is when it becomes an opponent. You want to outfox, outflank, outsmart it (lots of adversarial synonyms go through your head at… read more

Fiction

Jun 01 1989

Uncle Isaac

My Uncle Isaac’s sexuality, according to my father’s theory, had been marked by the half-woman. Isaac, at thirteen, would sneak into the basement of the Philadephia Medical Museum where a woman’s torso floated in formaldehye. It was 1933, and here–beneath the museum’s upper floors with their public exhibits–reasearch and training about venereal disease was taking place. In a reinforced glass case, at the back of a laboratory room filled with charts and diagrams of progressive syphilis, rested the half-woman, clean of infection except for a lesion on her left breast.