Fiction
… letter in the hope that you will recognize yourself and come forward and give me a hint. I notice that I have … me, since, as far as I could tell, it concerned some fine points of medical billing seen from the physician’s point of … voice carried through the quarter-full bus: the perfect audience size. I think it was the word menses that finally …
Criticism
… a slideshow of “ Last Photographs ,” a photo-essay forthcoming in this summer’s issue of VQR. The essay documents … Shaw said he could explain the initial reticence of soldiers and marines toward embedded journalists. “We don’t … Ben Shaw (left) talking with Ashley Gilbertson (right). Also pictured are (left to right) Andrea Bruce, a …
Criticism
… by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its … was basic to most of his best work. One of the earliest studies was Ward L. Miner’s The World of William Faulkner … of the links between fiction and fact, between individuals and processes driven by factors social, economic, and …
Criticism
… it is also part of a culture that lives on even when banks die, and that, amid the varieties in bonds and the national … of account the mass of old data, maxims, hammerings, stale points raked into the general melee of “Too True to Be … that a country’s art must be. New York theater Drama plays 262-276 By Stark Young …
Fiction
… many years. Maybe the man who claimed to be her father has died. Maybe it’s her mother who continues to send checks, … Only if necessary. If desperate, Alva will accept: meals, winter clothing, places to stay. (Alva never stays in … from the post office box. Opens it, tosses aside the accompanying letter, keeps only the check made out to Alva …
Criticism
… sometimes endangered habitats. Mauldin examines what has become common practice, and the normative script in response … to interrupt my reading, I didn’t stop to listen at those points. This was a mistake for two reasons. The first is … in our lives, can become a battle, with deaf children’s bodies as the battlefield. And the battlefields are numerous. …