ISSUES | summer 2019
42.2 (Summer 2019): “Americana”
Inside: New fiction by Joan Silber and a career-spanning interview with Janet Burroway. Featuring Jocelyn Cullity, Kermit Frazier, Chris Hayes, Kim Henderson, Allison Hutchcraft, Ember Johnson, Angela Kelly, David Kirby, Kristine Somerville, and Carolyn Vega.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Foreword
Aug 05 2019
Foreword: Americana
Our literature came into a sense of purpose and identity after the Civil War, during the rise of the magazine as a widespread source of American writers. While there was… read more
Fiction
Aug 05 2019
Fields of Empire
My father, who meant well about some things and not about others, died at seventy, not that old. He’d been living in our house in New Jersey, with caretakers around… read more
Poetry
Aug 05 2019
Poetry: David Kirby
The Woman in the Wall The housekeeper is about to disappear into the room next to mine just as I say, Wait, tell me a housekeeping story. She’s a college… read more
Fiction
Aug 05 2019
Life After People
“You’re late,” says Jesse on Tuesday, as I slide into a seat beside him. “Traffic,” I say. “Hmruphh,” says Jesse. “And what did I miss?” Jesse makes a shushing sound.… read more
Curio Cabinet
Aug 05 2019
Charles Dickens’s Reading Copies
Literary success came to Charles Dickens with the publication of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in 1836-37. Following Pickwick, he brought out in quick succession Oliver Twist (1837-39), Nicholas… read more
Art
Aug 05 2019
Visual Burlesque: Ralph Barton and Puck Magazine
Jazz-Age illustrator Ralph Barton sported an exaggerated urbanity. Elegant and handsome, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a slight frame, he dressed in flawlessly tailored suits with striped shirts, matching… read more
Nonfiction
Aug 05 2019
Snow
For all too short a time we were blissfully at one with a white world, one that wasn’t “other” when it fell upon us, for it was, in fact, a… read more
Poetry
Aug 05 2019
Poetry: Allison Hutchcraft
Swale In my winter by the sea, I fashioned a new habit: each day walking to Crowley Creek through mud and leafless alder, their branches cupped by the… read more
Poetry
Aug 05 2019
Poetry: Chris Hayes
Hey Y’all Watch This I yelled it for the first time standing on a roof’s edge like all those other idiots you’ve seen in videos. Shirtless, greased with sun, ready… read more
Fiction
Aug 05 2019
Soft
Shar took the afternoon off work to sit in a circle of student desks with four of her daughter’s teachers. Mrs. Burrows, who had called the meeting, handed her an… read more
Interviews
Aug 05 2019
A Conversation with Janet Burroway
Janet Burroway, Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for writing by the Florida Humanities Council, is the author of eight novels… read more
Reviews
Aug 05 2019
Gathering Places: The Stories of Six Women and the Worlds They Created
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice, Judith Mackrell, Thames & Hudson, 2017, 408 pp., $34.95. Harcover The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High… read more