Summer 2004 Issue

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Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways — Can Stories Matter?

Essay

Ron McLarty — Writing Life: Pinch Me; or, How Stephen King Changed My Life

Fiction

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — A Private Experience
Daniel Alarcón — Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979
Steve Almond — The Problem of Human Consumption
Dean Bakopoulos — Happy
Tom Bissell — Death Defier
Brock Clarke — The Misunderstandings
Peter Ho Davies — The New Corporal
Merrill Feitell — It Couldn't Be More Beautiful
Helon Habila — My Uncle Ezekiel
Jennifer Haigh — The Bottom of Things
Cristina Henriquez — Drive
John McNally — Contributor's Notes
Thisbe Nissen — You Were My Favorite Scarecrow
Daniel Stolar — Release
Mika Tanner — Bullies

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