ISSUES | winter 2002
25.3 (Winter 2002): "Marlene Dietrich"
Featuring work by Reginald Gibbons, Kerry Hardie, Ann Hood, Ann Lauinger, Linda Lawson, James McKinley, Ron Nyren, Lewis Robinson, S. E. Sciortino, Gabriel Spera, Silas Dent Zobal, an interview with Stanley Kauffman, and a found text by Franz Hessel.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
Food
Grist for the mill, he decided. Food for thought. Or maybe it all was thought, meditation, the torturing examining-the-life process all the wise ones prattled about. But why every midnight?
Nonfiction
Sep 01 2002
Facilitated Communication
The Atlantic in October is cold but not frigid, as least not in southern Maine, where Craig walks barefoot in the receding tide, pant legs rolled halfway to his knees.
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
When the Beatles Lived Next Door
He told me they lived next door. He stood pressing against the split-rail fence that separated our yards and pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
Eiders
I set decoys–my father called them tollers–by dropping their small steel anchors overboards, paying out line. They had thin keels on their underbellies that kept them pointed in the same direction, lookin exactly like any raft of ducks you’d see up the cove.
Found Text
Sep 01 2002
Marlene Dietrich: A Portrait
This feature is not currently available online. In 1929 a legend was born.
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
The Alphabetic Book Club
One November afternoon, my father closed the stationery store half an hour early to prepare for the arrival of the Alphabetic Book Club. He thought out front lawn needed to be raked first, even though I insisted it would be to dark for Mr. Barr and Mr. Jellicoe to notice by the time they arrived.
Nonfiction
Sep 01 2002
Discipline
Mother’s view of life was sometimes expressed in accepted saying: Waste Not, Want Not; Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be; A Word to the Wise is Sufficient.
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
Fishhead
It may sound odd, but a large cemetary can reflect the optimism of the living. The spacious graveyard and the church beside it, with substantial spire, belong to a time that was to be without end.
Fiction
Sep 01 2002
Outlaw
What Hoot Rawley talked about was the time before we were revisions of ourselves. The late afternoon was unblemished. Heat rose from the heaps of stone beneath us. Willows spotted the base of the gully.
Poetry
Sep 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Kerry Hardie
Featuring the poems: After My Father Died, Tent, Rain in April, Trapped Swallow, Under the Sun
Poetry
Sep 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Gabriel Spera
Featuring the poems: The Aerialist, Midway, Studies for a Portrait, Tarantula
Interviews
Sep 01 2002
Interview with Stanley Kauffmann
Interviewer: Could we begin by discussing your tenure as theater critic of The New York Times, from January 1, 1966, to August 31 of the same year?
Kauffmann: I had not sought the post; I had been invited by Times executives to meet with them. They said they were considering major changes in their Culture Department and wanted “to pick my brains.”
Poetry
Sep 01 2002
Poetry Feature: Ann Lauinger
Featuring the poems: Split Lilac, Spares, Ariel’s Leg, Leaving Sodom, The Party, Knives