Issue 20.2 | Summer & Fall 2008


Please visit the linked items to read excerpts from this issue's content.


Fiction

Saxophone Lung Explodes (Winner of the 2008 Wabash Prize in Fiction) by Matthew Simmons

Weather by Elizabeth Palermo

Brooklyn Bridge by Amina Gautier

Funerals Are for the Living by Eloise Glass

Between Nothing and Air by Tyler McMahon

Bellboy by William Woolfit

Poetry

The Holy People by T. Zachary Cotler

Pandora’s Daughters by Claudia Burbank

Automatic Thoughts on Keeping a Pain Diary

Automatic Thoughts on Turning 40

Automatic Thoughts Beginning with an Image of Lungs

Automatic Thoughts with Words from the Dead Dad , by Leah Nielsen

Still Life by Anthony Farrington

Lucifer’s Fear by Philip Memmer

Yvonne

Here by Nancy Namoi Carlson

Post War Cookbooks by Daniel Bremmer

Somoto, Nicaragua, #3 by Ruth E. Dickey

Mole People by Joseph Gastiger

Essays

American Again in My Lai by Charles Waugh

Sustenance by Chris Drew


Interviews

Totally Unkown in Finland: An Interview with Michael Chabon

From Short Fiction to the Novel: An Interview with Peter Ho Davies

Artwork

Issue 20.2 features the work of Dushan Milic.


Book Reviews

Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book

Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen of the Road

J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year

Jorie Graham’s Sea Change

Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke

Li-Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes

Steven Millhauser’s Thirteen Stories