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Winter 1987 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Winter 1987

Articles

In Defense of Anonymity
Douglas W. Alden — A Literary Jack-Of-All-Trades
James Deakin — The Wayward Press: An Updater
Richard Easton — The Rivalry
Darwin J. Flakoll — La Vida En Deya
David T. Gies — Velazquez, Or Social Climbing As Art
William C. Havard — The Treasury of Virtue Revisited
Barbara Kingsolver — Rose-Johnny
Murray Milner — Dirt and Development In India
John Seelye — Beyond the Shining Mountains: the Lewis and Clark Expedition As An Enlightenment Epic
Michael Joseph Smith — Nuclear Deterrence: Behind the Strategic and Ethical Debate
Monroe K. Spears — James Dickey As A Southern Visionary

Fiction

Ann Beattie — Mermaids

Poetry

Poetry

Reprint

Reprint, Winter 1987

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Winter 1987