ISSUES | spring 2013
36.1 (Spring 2013): "Escape"
Featuring the winners of the 2012 Editors’ Prize as well as work by Cara Blue Adams, Jennifer Anderson, Aaron Belz, Jerry Gabriel, Darren Morris, and Brad Wetherell… along with a conversation with Steve Almond and William Giraldi and a look at the art of Al Hirschfeld.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Apr 16 2013
Nailing Down the Truth
Featuring reviews of: Janet Planet by Eleanor Lerman. Mayapple Press, 2011, 208 pp., $17.95 (paper). Faith by Jennifer Haigh. Harper Perennial, 2012, 352 pp., $14.99 (paper). Intuition by Allegra Goodman.… read more
Art
Apr 16 2013
Stagestruck: The Character Drawings of Al Hirschfeld
During his nine-decade career, Hirschfeld generated more than 12,000 drawings that chronicled the history of entertainment in this country. His images have become the logo of the American theater. No… read more
Interviews
Apr 16 2013
A Conversation with Steve Almond and William Giraldi
I see a lot of style and voice disembodied from vision, when real vision—the emotional/existential/intellectual shape of a psyche and its way through the fallen world—is what distinguishes a writer.… read more
Poetry
Apr 16 2013
Poetry Feature: Darren Morris
“Fear of Justifications”
“The First Circle”
“Fear of the Either/Or”
“Fear of Seed Vaults and Immortality”
“Fear of Blamelessness”
Poetry
Apr 16 2013
Poetry Feature: Aaron Belz
“Charmed”
“Movement”
“King Leopold”
“How to Write a Poem”
“Dockside Dolls”
Nonfiction
Apr 16 2013
A Clean Break
One month before I ran from the police with my mother, I threw a baseball for the last time. I was twelve years old, in the eighth grade, and I… read more
Nonfiction
Apr 16 2013
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
In the locked unit an old woman slumps on one of the mismatched sofas that line the walls, crocheted blanket draped over her head. Beatrice, I think. She snores softly,… read more
Fiction
Apr 16 2013
The Sea Latch
When I wake our first day at the Sea Latch, my mother and Agnes sit on the motel’s carpeted porch, smoking as they gaze over the railing at the passing… read more
Fiction
Apr 16 2013
The Defense
Turner had been thinking for the many months of his recovery about visiting Brian up in Jackson Hole when he was well enough to travel again, but then, just a… read more
Poetry
Apr 16 2013
Poetry Feature: Katie Bickham
Winner of the 2012 Editors’ Prize in the poetry category
“Dining Room, 1811”
“Kitchen, 1850”
“Master Bedroom, 1859”
“Front Porch, 1900”
“Widow’s Walk, 1917”
“Child’s Bedroom, 1933”
“Parlor, 2012”
Nonfiction
Apr 16 2013
Delusions of Grandeur
Winner of the 2012 Editors’ Prize in the essay category. David is a certified helicopter pilot, a culinary chef, tried to serve in the U.S. Army but was discharged prior… read more
Fiction
Apr 16 2013
The blood was the mountain and the mountain was the bear
Winner of the 2012 Editors’ Prize in the fiction category. Eliot tried to run his hand through his hair, which had clumped in dark, greasy hanks. Stubble sanded his neck… read more
Foreword
Apr 16 2013
The Great Escape
For over three decades of my life I watched few movies and even less television. I watched so little TV that I told my wife that I had discovered a… read more