Autumn 1994

Booton Herndon’s “Paris Was Yesterday” John Egerton’s “The Pre-Brown South” Russell Fraser’s “Proserpine’s Island” Stories by Booton Herndon, John Egerton, and Russell Fraser Poetry by Michael Jay McClure, Natasha Saje, Jane Hilberry, and Adele Slaughter
Autumn 1994

Volume 70, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1994 cover
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Table of contents

Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Autumn 1994

Painters

By Tim Wooten
 
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Half Life

By Daniel R. Ernst
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Reprint, Autumn 1994

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Paris Was Yesterday

By Booton Herndon
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Sleeping With My Sisters

By Adele Slaughter
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Memory

By Sharon Pywell
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Piano Lesson

By Adele Slaughter
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Coming of Age

By Leon Arden
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The Book of Denial

By Adele Slaughter
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The Pre-Brown South

By John Egerton
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Wrestling With My Brother

By Adele Slaughter
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Proserpine’s Island

By Russell Fraser
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The Poem Emerges

By Michael Jay Mcclure
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Haunted

By Michael Jay Mcclure
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Song

By Michael Jay Mcclure
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Break

By Michael Jay Mcclure
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The Green Room, Autumn 1994

By Staige D. Blackford
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Agoraphobia

By Natasha Saje
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1994

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Reinventing the Inventor

By Chris Cleary
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Train

By Jane Hilberry
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Home Boys Between Hard Covers

By Sanford Pinsker
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Craft

By Jane Hilberry

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