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Winter 1996

Winter 1996

Volume 72, Number 1

David Kirby’s “What Is A Writer?”
Tucker Carrington’s “The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel”
Sanford Pinsker’s “He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why”
Francis Leary’s “Robespierre: the Meaning of Virtue”
Stories by David Kirby, Tucker Carrington, Sanford Pinsker, and Francis Leary
Poetry by Charles Simic, Albert Goldbarth, Stephen Dobyns, and Mark Svenvold

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Table of Contents

Confessions of a Might-Have-Been Conservative

By Leonard Kriegel

Or, How Newt and Rush Helped One New York Liberal See the Light and Keep the Faith Among the curses of possessing a mind filled with the detritus of old books and movies is the discovery that one hungers for a life stripped down to its bare essent [...]

Consolations of Water

By Stephen Dobyns

Mints

By Mariflo Stephens

Noli Me Tangere

By Nicole Cooley

Robespierre: the Meaning of Virtue

By Francis Leary

Alice Changing Size In the Hall of Doors

By Nicole Cooley

Replacement Players

By Floyd Skloot

Notes on Current Books, Winter 1996

Confessions of a Might-Have-Been Conservative

By Leonard Kriegel

The Green Room, Winter 1996

By Staige D. Blackford

To Keep One’s Treasure Protected

By Stephen Dobyns

A Tale of Two Writers

By Thomas Filbin

Variation of Themes By the Doors

By Mark Svenvold

A Man’s World

By John Kuehl

Poverty Music

By Mark Svenvold

Liking Steinbeck

By David Wyatt

Work

By Mark Svenvold

City By the Chesapeake Bay

By Robert Mason

When My Mother Visited

By John McKernan

Ross and Alsop: Genius and Gadfly

By Martin Ochs

A Soap Bubble on One Side

By John McKernan

Fascism: the Wrong Idea

By

An Address with Exclamation Points

By Charles Simic

What Is A Writer?

By David Kirby

Meditation in the Gutter

By Charles Simic

Sharking

By Alyson Hagy

Reprint, Winter 1996

Scale-Model Sketch

By Albert Goldbarth

Fetishes of Passport

By Albert Goldbarth

Percy and the Lamb

By Paul R. Lilly

Visitor

By Stephen Dobyns

He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why

By Sanford Pinsker

Essays

The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel

By Tucker Carrington

Author Profiles

David Kirby

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.

Charles Simic

Charles Simic, the current US Poet Laureate, received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn’t End (Harcourt). His collection The Voice at 3:00 A.M. was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award.