ISSUES | winter 1998
21.3 (Winter 1998): "Misfits"
Featuring work by Oliver Broudy, Frederick Busch, Bob Hicok, Sue Hubbell, Wendy Katten, J. Robert Lennon, Romulus Linney, Nicola Mason, Pamela Ward, Robert Wrigley, and Laura Yeager.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Sep 01 1998
Poetry Feature: Robert Wrigley
“Our Father”
“Movies”
“Wanting God”
“Art”
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
The Talking Cure
Love is unspeakable. Consider the story of the older brother who went off to school, the brilliant, tall mother and wife who hunched herself shorter, curved at her tilted drafting… read more
Found Text
Sep 01 1998
Found Text: The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
In Loco Parentis
This story is not currently available online.
Interviews
Sep 01 1998
An Interview with Jane Smiley
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
Whammy
This story is not currently available online.
Poetry
Sep 01 1998
Poetry Feature: Bob Hicok
“Commission by Attrition”
“Out of Nothing”
“Pythagoras in the Nursing Home”
“Book Report”
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1998
Teacher
In summer, 1952, I was having the normal nervous breakdown of a confused young actor who didn’t see commercial stardom in his future and didn’t know what the purpose of… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
Having Anne
This story is not currently available online.
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
Smoking is Cool
This story is not currently available online.
Nonfiction
Sep 01 1998
The Web
We must have . . . objects themselves to serve as the factual basis for knowledge, the final arbiter in matters of contested identity or meaning, the ‘ground truth’ that… read more
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
The Hairy Little Girl
This story is not currently available online.
Fiction
Sep 01 1998
Casting a Circle
“Wasn’t Phillip the guy you said I would like?” I didn’t have time to answer this. It was late, the bus was electric and stealthy, and Genevieve’s pupils were malfunctioning.… read more