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| No. 188: Spring 2009 |
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| An interview with Annie Proulx: “The challenge is to make something that could be a novel but that works better as a short story, and to know the difference.” John Banville on his novels: “They’re an embarrassment and a deep source of shame. They’re better than everybody else’s, of course, but not good enough for me.” New poems and collages by John Ashbery. Werner Herzog's journals from the Amazon basin. New fiction by Jesse Ball, Philip Gourevitch, Caitlin Horrocks, and James Lasdun. Photos by Lena Herzog, and spring poetry from David Wagoner, Ron Slate, and more. |
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| No. 189: Summer 2009 |
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| An interview with Gay Talese: “Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.” A novella by Damon Galgut: “The stranger who has taken up residence in her, somebody dark and reckless that he doesn't trust, is still biding her time.” Liao Yiwu marks the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square. Tad Friend on love among WASPs. New stories by Boualem Sansal and Kenneth Calhoun. Photos by Larry Sultan, and poetry from Billy Collins, Craig Arnold, and Dana Levin. |
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| No. 190: Fall 2009 |
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| James Ellroy on his novels: “If you’re confused about something in one of my books, you’ve just got to realize, Ellroy’s a master, and if I’m not following it, it’s my problem.” Frederick Seidel on the Art of Poetry: “I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.” New stories by Sam Shepard, Richard Powers, and Mark Slouka. Streetscapes from fifties New York. A dispatch from North Korea from Barbara Demick. Plus poems from Elizabeth Arnold and Timothy Donnelly and newly translated work by Rainer Maria Rilke. |
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| No. 191: Winter 2009 |
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| Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction. An interview with Mary Karr: “In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.” Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass. A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris. New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen. Plus Benjamin Percy's encounters with the animal world; a folio of photographs by Massimo Vitali; winter poetry by Marianne Boruch, Cathy Park Hong, Dorothea Tanning; and more. |
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