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Autumn 2003 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Autumn 2003

Essay

George Garrett — Staige Blackford (1931–2003)

Articles

Alexander Burnham — Painted Ladies At Yale
John J. Clayton — The Promised Land: A Story
Stephen Cushman — Master of Melody
Arnold W. Frutkin — Banishing Bernstein
Philip Gould — Meg O'Fallon: A Story
BERNICE GROHSKOPF — Pre-Oprah Franzen
David L. Holmes — The Religion of James Monroe
Walter Lafeber — Morality, Foreign Policy, Life
Theo Lippman — McGill and Patterson: Journalists for Justice
Woodford Mcclellan — The Fire Every Time
Max M. Mintz — Gouverneur Morris, George Washington's War Hawk
Michael Nelson — Fighting for Lincoln's Soul
Peter Onuf — Go West, Young Men
Angela Pneuman — All Saints Day: A Story
J. Douglas Smith — Louis JaffÉ's Tormented Plea for Justice

Poetry

Marvin Bell — Meditation and The Bones Repeat Themselves
Sarah Gorham — Prayer During A Fast, My Life As An Old Woman, and "THE END OF ILLNESS IS THE END OF METAPHOR"
Eve Grubin — Happiness on Earth
ANGIE HOGAN — For My Brother Who Died Before I Was Born
JEFFREY LEVINE — Antonia, Pearl Fisher and My Antonia
Anna George Meek — Eleanor Roosevelt's Wedding Gown and Origins of the Universe: An Aria
Jay Parini — Crow's Nest
Natasha Saje — The Tunnel
Floyd Skloot — The Role of A Lifetime and Salmon River Estuary

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Autumn 2003