ISSUES | fall 2002
25.2 (Fall 2002): "Uncovered"
Featuring work by Steve Almond, Elizabeth Tova Bailey, Rebecca Black, Brendan Galvin, William Harrison, Ryan Harty, Jesse Kercheval, Robert King, David Zanne Mairowitz, Erin McGraw, Speer Morgan, Peter Musolf, Steve Street, and an interview with Diane Johnson and an interview with Jamaica Kincaid.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Foreword
Oct 01 2002
Silver
While visiting Columbia, Missouri, this year Wally Lamb was talking with an audience about the nature of literary success. He told about something that had happened to him while he was on a promotional tour for his second novel, I Know This Much Is True.
Fiction
Jun 01 2002
Eleven Beds
Night on Lake Dallas in the Texas summer: the water gives back the starlight and his girlfriend is fifteen years old, freckled, and they await the magic of the moonrise.
Interviews
Jun 01 2002
Interview with Diane Johnson
Interviewer: I’m stuck by the sense of fun in your work, something I seldom see in contemporary fiction.
Johnson: I too find that quality strangely lacking — not true of authors we now think of as “classic,” like, say, E. M. Forster, or even James, who can be very funny. I have no explanation for the American lack, and it has even crossed my mind that a sense of fun can be a curse in the U.S., preventing readers from seeing the serious issues and thoughts that may find their way into a writer’s pages.
Interviews
Jun 01 2002
Interview with Jamaica Kincaid
Bonetti: Ms. Kincaid, in the novel Lucy, you give Lucy Josephine Potter one of your birth names and your own birthday. How closely do the facts of Lucy’s biography match… read more
Poetry
Jun 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Robert King
Featuring the poems: Comparisons, Instructions, From the Book of Rope, One of Those Days, Aunts, In the Neighborhood
Fiction
Jun 01 2002
This Company Died for Your Lawn, This Lawn Died for Your Company
Sligo’s new idea was wealth, sudden gouts of cashola, the vaguely cheese-like scent of new bills. He viewed our current circumstance–technically, a circumstance of poverty–as the ideal substrate.
Poetry
Jun 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Jesse Kercheval
Featuring the poems: Saving Silence, Napoleon Vu Par Abel Gance, Kurutta Ippeiji: A Page of Madness
Poetry
Jun 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Rebecca Black
Featuring the poems: 1790, Hiding the Silver, Hand-Me-Downs, Stomp Dancing, Bartram Among the Seminoles, Bartram’s Ghost
Fiction
Jun 01 2002
The Bunt
Standing at the plate, fouling off a pitch, I’m trying to give a place and a name to this lanceur. I remeber vaguely that I failed him in the course I used to call “English for Intermediate Morons” before I realized that teaching English in France was no laughing matter.
Poetry
Jun 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Brendan Galvin
Featuring the poems: Brendan, Riffing Deciduous, Mystery Squid, A Buck’s Prints in Winter, Fogdog, New Cop
Fiction
Jun 01 2002
Skin
Anders chucked everything–wife, friends back home, even his grown kids after they’d helped him straighten out his complicated international paperwork–to marry an Egyptian woman, a registrar at the exclusive international prep school he worked for in Cairo.
Fiction
Jun 01 2002
Don't Call It Christmas
When he got home that night is was raining hard, and the girl lay in the entryway, crying. The boy was gone, but his chrome bike still stood against the wall. The girl glanced up from her dirty yellow blanket, eyes red, cheeks dark with mascara.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 2002
Not from Here
Call it a family trait. My aunt Barbara, christened Imogene, changed her name when she was seventeen. Her sister Inez began with a different name too, but she changed it so early that no one can recall the first one.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 2002
Light Falling on Mauna Kea
The summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is a broken circle of stark ridges and brown and red cinder cones surrounding a shallow, tilting valley.
Nonfiction
Jun 01 2002
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
A woodland snail, tiny, drab-colored and slow moving, kept my interest in life alive for some of the worst months of a chronic illness.