Winter 1999

Volume 75/1

Peter Bridges’s “The Polymath From Vermont” Cecil C. H. Cullander’s “Why Thomas Mann Wrote” Jeffrey Meyers’s “Family Memoirs of Thomas Mann” Emily Auerbach’s “ ‘A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven’: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen?” Stories by PETER BRIDGES, Cecil C. H. Cullander, Jeffrey Meyers, and Emily Auerbach Poetry by Stephen Dobyns, Susan Maurer, Dennis Sampson, and Jacquelyn Pope

Winter 1999

Volume 75, Number 1

Print: $10.00

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1999

“A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven”: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen?

By Emily Auerbach

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1999

The Polymath From Vermont

By Peter Bridges

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Winter 1999

Why Thomas Mann Wrote

By Cecil C. H. Cullander

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Winter 1999

2000

By April Lott

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Me and the Sea

By Vyacheskav P'yetsukh

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In a Sick Society

By Lilian Furst

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Notes on Current Books, Winter 1999

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Responding to the Holocaust

By Merrill Peterson

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The Cheerfulness of Dutch Art

By Paul Barolsky

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The Properties of Stainless Steel

By Brad Barkley

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The Green Room, Winter 1999

By Staige D. Blackford

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Antarctic Convergence

By Russell Fraser

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On Fire and In Love With the Taste of Words

By John Filler

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The New Austerity

By Stephen Dobyns

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A King’s “Impossible” Dream

By Michael F. Graham

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A Man Called Beatrice

By Susan Maurer

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Redemption

By James Spencer

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Strolling With Salisubsilious Against Marvin Cohen

By Susan Maurer

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Out of My Own Pocket

By Martha Collins

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Hawg Heaven (From Spikes)

By Michael Griffith

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Liz Every Day

By Dennis Sampson

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Surface Effects In Summer Wind

By Reginald Shepherd

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Family Memoirs of Thomas Mann

By Jeffrey Meyers

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Letter to Westerbork (For Etty Hillesum)

By Jacquelyn Pope

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Littoral

By Reginald Shepherd

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Tribute

By William Hoffman

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North of Bethel

By D. Nurkse

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Telemachus on the Waterfront

By Reginald Shepherd

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Tugboats on the Delaware

By W. D. Ehrhart

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The Bread on My Table

By Martha Collins

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Reprint, Winter 1999

Contributor Profiles

Peter Bridges

Peter Bridges received degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University, and after two years as an Army private spent three decades as an officer of the United States Foreign Service in Washington and at American embassies in Panam

Cecil C. H. Cullander

A psychiatrist, Cecil C. H. Cullander, M.D., worked at the University of Virginia as a part-time supervising analyst from the late 1970s to 2000.