ISSUES | fall 2017
40.3 (Fall 2017): “Local Color”
Featuring the work of Alethea Black, Stephanie Carpenter, Bettina Drew, Kim Coleman Foote, Kelli Jo Ford, Max Harris, Jeanne Lutz, Josh Myers, Robin Romm, Jack Smith, and Eleanor Swanson.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Oct 31 2017
Climate Change: Scientific Evidence and the Industry of Denial
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm. Oxford University Press, 2016, 328 pp., $16.95 (paper). Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan, with… read more
Poetry
Oct 31 2017
Poetry Feature: Eleanor Swanson
“Blue Bowl”
“Crossing Over”
“Vestige”
“As the Dreamer Waits”
“Dark Photograph”
Poetry
Oct 31 2017
Poetry Feature: Josh Myers
“Aubade in a Red State”
“Oklahoma”
“County Fair”
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
Book of the Generations
It wasn’t fair that she was so angry over it all when every little thought she had was one that probably required forgiveness. She was just a girl, and she… read more
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It
As Nancy prepares to drop her secret that afternoon, the girls play jacks while the boys keep lookout. She lowers her voice to reveal the plot: the next time she… read more
Poetry
Oct 31 2017
Poetry Feature: Jeanne Lutz
“Letter to an English Teacher”
“Letter to Wendell Barry”
“The Time My Uncle Took Me Fishing”
“Grandfather and His Simultaneous Eyes”
“Self-Portrait with Twine”
Nonfiction
Oct 31 2017
Heavy Metal: An Essay on Certainty
I wanted more stability, not more moving, not more questing. I wanted a house on a foundation, a man with a plan, a child. I wanted stillness. I didn’t tell… read more
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
When Cuckoos Run the Day Care Centers
More than fifty years ago, in the village of Compton Burdock, Rose Brooke celebrated her eleventh birthday. When her party ended, two children were missing. This story is not… read more
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
The Longest Night of the Year
Sex. That’s all Cameron had really wanted. Uncommitted, internet-facilitated sex and maybe a little conversation. But the woman he brought home—his online date, his supposed match—hasn’t emerged from his guest… read more
Nonfiction
Oct 31 2017
Department of Development
Every day after five I drove him to a neon-signed bar called Flanagan’s, where he recovered from work with vodka martinis and told me about his life. “My grandfather invented… read more
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
A Place in the World
During the day, you wander the streets of Manhattan in a trance, half-floating above the pavement. Sometimes you ride the M104 bus all the way to the end of the… read more
Foreword
Oct 30 2017
Foreword: Local Color
This issue is replete with the color and vibrancy of place, setting and spoken language. What came to be called the Local Color Movement was especially vigorous for over a… read more