Number 64 (2019)

Contents

KALISHA BUCKHANON
HEATHER E. GOODMAN
ROSEMARY HARP
RUTH SCHEMMEL
ROBERT MUSIL

MARK JAY MIRSKY
EZRA ZONANA
SHEILA KOHLER
SILVINA OCAMPO


JAMES GOHO
MARY MARCUS
JAMES TERRY
MARK JAY MIRSKY
BENJAMIN SWETT
MARC PALMIERI
MICHAEL BROIDA

SAM RAMOS
VÁCLAV PARIS
D. J. THIELKE

Speaking of Summer
Boone
A Thousand Years
Crawl
The Completion of Love
Notes on the Writing of Unions
A Novelist’s Notes
The Quiet Streets of Brooklyn
Displaced
From: Sentinels of the Dark
The Enmity of Things
Florindo Flodiola
Calls from Home
Alice’s Blue Heaven
Rent
Noah
The Picture Not Taken
IQ Test
The Famous Man-Eating Tiger of
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Exiles from the Wasteland
The Dogs
The Bullet Game

Number 63 (2018)

Contents

ROGER ANGELL

CHRISTINA RIVERA-GARZA
LEIA MENLOVE
SHEILA KOHLER
JUAN CARLOS ONETTI
DOUA THAO
CONSTANTINE JONES
GLORIA L. HUANG
ANDREW WICKENDEN
YOLANDE BRENER
NAOMIE JEAN-PIERRE

A Ramble: A Conversation with Mark Jay Mirsky
From: The Taiga Syndrome
Haunt
Monsieur André
Where Magda Is Loved
Flowers for Amerca
Lucy
Breaking In
Fooling Around
Violet Capers
No More Plantains
A Short History of Scars

Number 62 (2016)

Contents

JUAN CARLOS ONETTI
JAMES BOICE
SOMMER SCHAFER
CARA BAYLES
MAXIM LOSKUTOFF
CLARICE LISPECTOR
MICHAEL CALEB TASKER
ALAN ROSSI

STEVE STERN
​​LARA VAPNYAR
GWEN GOODKIN
EMILY ANDERSON
RICHARD WIRICK
CLAUDIA CAMAJ
CRYSTAL JOY VAGNIER
MARK JAY MIRSKY

Back In Time
Man Opening His Wallet
The Gorge
Sunk
Too Much Love
The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit
Pick Up
All the Harm the World is Doing to the World
Prologue: The Tower
Helicopter
Just Les Is Fine
Semi-Annual Bridal Event
The Branch
I Don’t Want to Write About This So I Will
The Boat
Sinbad The Sailor’s Last Story

Number 61 (2015)

Contents

PRIMO LEVI

MAURICIO MONTIEL FIGUEIRAS
AUSTIN SMITH
DALIA ROSENFELD
JORGE VOLPI
JILL BIRDSALL
JINGJING TIAN
JON LEWIS-KATZ
JESSICA FALZOI
MARK JAY MIRSKY
JENN SCOTT
JOSEPH McELROY
DENNIS McFADDEN
LISSA WEINSTEIN
SEAN CLEMMONS
MARIO MATERASSI

Vilmy
Weekend
From: The Man in Tweed: The City

Hard Rock
A Famine in the Land
An End to the Madness
The Translator
The Deer Hunters
The Beach on a December Day
Visitors
On Account of an Apple
Gettysburg
Court of Last Opinion
Lafferty’s Ghost
What is the Extent of the Damage?
Aim Low
End of the Road

Number 60 (2014)

Contents

MARY MILLER
JOHN BARTH
SILVINA OCAMPO
BJARTE BREITEIG
SHEILA KOHLER
GENESE GRILL
ROBERT MUSIL
PAUL H. SEGAR
DIANNE BENEDICT
MARK JAY MIRSKY

KATHERIN NOLTE
MAME EKBLOM CUDD
BRIAN KAMSOKE
CHRIS ROSS

RAYMOND STROM
DARIN L. RUMMEL
DAVID GAFFNEY-ROSENFELD

Hamilton Pool
Just Desserts
The Promise
Stockholm
My Last Duchess
Translator’s Introduction to Short Prose
Short Prose
Dog Man
The Birdcage
I. Who Was Scheherazade?
II. Do I Know You?
The Turkey Trot
To Erase the Blue Lines
Manikin
Lunch Date
Mommy’s Friend
Life of Ophelia Otterman, Age 12
Working for Warmth
Party City

Number 59 (2013)

Contents

JOYCE CAROL OATES
ROBERT MUSIL
GENESE GRILL
CHRIS ROSS
CYNTHIA OZICK AND MARK JAY MIRSKY
STEVE DANZIGER
CHRISTINA LOWELL BRAZELTON
MARC PALMIERI

The Execution
To an Unknown Little Girl
Translator’s Afterword
Little Ears
Snubs and Cemeteries: A Correspondence

Letters from the Samantha
Consuming a Relative

From: When I Wore Floods

Fiction from Norway: Thirteen Stories

BJARTE BREITEIG
KNUT HAMSUN
JON FOSSE
KJELL ASKILDSEN
MERETHE LINDSTRØM
THURE ERIK LUND
SVEIN JARVOLL
KYRRE ANDREASSEN
TERJE HOLTET LARSEN
INGVILD H. RISHØI
LAILA STIEN
INGRID STORHOLMEN
TOR ULVEN
KJELL ASKILDSEN

Introduction to the Norwegian Section
Off On Tour
That’s How It Started
The Nail in the Cherry Tree
Injury
On Foresight
The Byzantinologist
This Is Where Your Pals Are
No Crazy Lives There Now
The Rain Is Coming In
Doesn’t Matter Much
From: Voices from Chernobyl
I’m Sleeping
A Sudden Liberating Thought

Number 58 (2012)

Contents

JAMAICA KINCAID
JANICE LEVY
SHEILA KOHLER
KATHARINA BENDIXEN
MICHAEL KARDOS
JEROME CHARYN
LAWRENCE OSBORNE
MARTHA SCHWENDENER
STEVE STERN
TODD JAMES PIERCE
JÜRG LAEDERACH
TODD STANSFIELD
KAREN BADDELEY
JAMES TERRY
​​EMILY McLAUGHLIN
KESI FOSTER
BRENDAN KIELY
JOHN TAIT
ANDY PLATTNER
CHRIS GAVALER
DAVID HARRIS EBENBACH

Knitting
Checking for Nicks
Fiction
Pregnancy in a Flowerpot
The Middle of Corn, U.S.A.
The Paperhanger’s Wife
Kakua
Jerry
From: The Pinch
The Ride
Harmful in the Row of Cabins
Anshul
Children’s Story
Blanco
Take Your Shoes Off in the Shallow End
Tag
The Manager
Dad’s Trying to be Cool Again
So, It’s Cursed?
The Way Back
Too Late at the Liberty Bell Restaurant

Number 57 (2011)

Contents

MARY MILLER
JENNIFER ANNE MOSES
ANTONIO MONDA
MARK JAY MIRSKY
HENRY ROTH
T. DUNCAN ANDERSON
JODI DAYNARD
JEROME CHARYN
STEVE DANZIGER
MARK JAY MIRSKY

HAROLD BRODKEY
PAULA BOMER
OLAV ANGELL
MARK JAY MIRSKY
GIOVANNI SANCHEZ
CARMEN BAUTISTA
STEPHEN TAYLOR

Rope Swings Over Muddy Waters
Like a Sister
The Fourteenth
Introduction to Henry Roth
First Years in Maine
Special People
A Little Psychopath for Everyday Life
Dee
Learning to Read
Preface to an Interview with Harold Brodkey
An Interview with Harold Brodkey
Cleveland Circle House
Mother’s Love
Ask Lot
Through Crying Eyes
The Bodega
Music, Discord, Bees

Number 56 (2010)

Contents

MARY GORDON
MARY MILLER

CATHERINE CURAN
JACKSON BLISS
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES & SILVINA OCAMPO
SHEILA KOHLER
RUSS FRANKLIN
JUAN JOSÉ SAER
RYU MURAKAMI

DAVID PLICK
JO McKENDRY
MARK JAY MIRSKY
STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ
MARY M. DAVIES
MILES HARVEY
LISSA WEINSTEIN
KATE MILLIKEN
DELL SMITH
KEVIN GRAUKE
DALTON TREVISAN

H. E. FRANCIS
JACKSON CONNOR

Lydia’s Violin
At One Time This Was the Longest Covered Walkway in the World
Smile When You Say Hello
The Great Fall
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Obsession
Runners
Hotel Room
Swans
Lullaby
The Right Words for a Eulogy
The Bod
Jonah As Traveller
Chato’s Day
Feeding the Ballet Girls
The Former Occupants
A Dimension Not Only of Sight and Sound
Parts of a Boat
Casey
Sub Rosa
The King of the Earth
A Candle for Dario
Unknown Territories of the Heart
Watertight Barrels

Number 55 (2009)

Contents

ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
JAMES TERRY
LYUBKO DERESH
TRENT ENGLAND
ELEANOR GOODMAN
DAVID PHILIP MULLINS
CHRISTINA LOWELL BRAZELTON
MAX FRISCH

REBECCA CHACE
TAMAS DOBOZY
ERIC GANSWORTH
KATHY PASSERO
VICTORIA SPROW
NATON LESLIE
HALINA DURAJ
R. CLIFTON SPARGO
BEN STROUD
MARK JAY MIRSKY

A Lost Battle
Midnight Pools
Cult
Frog Colony
Getting to No
The Last Thing in the World
The Rural Life [pace V.K.]

At the Roundtable with American Writers, 1981
Looking for Robinson Crusoe
Days of Orphans and Strangers
Gross Anatomy
Breaking Down
Waiting for the Creel
Thin Ice
The Family Cannon
American Women
Tucumcari
Scheherezade - Constructed

Number 54 (2008)

Contents

T. DUNCAN ANDERSON
KRISTIN KEARNS
LUC LANG

ANTHONY FARRINGTON
PAUL CELAN

E. C. OSONDU
JOSEPH McELROY
MICHAEL POORE

KAY SLOAN
GREGORY BLAKE SMITH
MARK JAY MIRSKY
MAX FRISCH

PATRICIA SCHULTHEIS
TIM HORVATH
MARTHA SCHWENDENER
RICHARD WIRICK
MARY MARCUS
THOMAS E. KENNEDY
RYAN EFFGEN

I Could Have Been a Great Father
Lonely Tylenol
Face?
The Lord’s Day
If You’re Looking for a Sign
The One and Only Circle. Paul Celan’s Letters to Gisèle
An Incident at Pat’s Bar
No Man’s Land
The Fires of Krypton
How to Raise a Positive-Thinking Baby
A Stain on the Sofa
Five Ways My Wife Could Die
Introduction
Max Frisch at the City College of New York, 1981
Downward Drifting
Urban Planning: Case Study Number Four
Post-Partum
Undertow
5751
Is Dog?
Rowing to Russia

Volume 20, Number 2 (2007)

Contents

LARA VAPNYAR
AMY REED
ISAAC BABEL


RAYMOND STROM
JOHN SULLIVAN
JON UDELSON
JOYCE CAROL OATES
GILA TAL
JASON TRASK
KIM CHINQUEE
MARK JAY MIRSKY
LUIS AMATE PEREZ
STEVE STERN
NURIT ZARCHI
GEORGI GOSPODINOV
ZACK BEAN
STEPHEN MARCHE
WILLIAM POWERS
DANIEL GRANDBOIS

“L and D”
Under the Wall
Forword
From: The Unpublished Letters of Isaac Babel
The Tattooed Arms
Love, Vaguely
Eva
The Blind Man’s Sighted Daughters
Brass Knuckles
From: Putting Out the Sun
Doll
Lake
Florencia
From: The Frozen Rabbi
Sailor
A Living Soul
Lucky Dog
For the Other Eugene Schiefflin
November Shoot, Rain
The Wife

Volume 20, Number 1 (2006)

Contents

MAX APPLE
ERIKA T. WURTH
JULIO CORTÁZAR
JUSTIN QUARRY
ROBERT MUSIL

RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA
DEAN A. FERGUSON
JOHN BARTH
DOROTHEA STRAUS
JENNIFER MOSES
JUDITH KUCKART
LEIGH NEWMAN
ZELDA ALPERN
JOHN MANDELBERG
MARK JAY MIRSKY
STEPHEN GRAF
LEAH McCORMACK
CATHLEEN CALBERT
PETER FERRY

Talker
How Ed Learned to Dance
From: Autonauts of the Cosmoway
Blowing Out Jesus' Birthday Candles
Sorrows and Pleasures of a Young Writer (1901-1908)
Mandarins
Crazy Bitch
Toga Party
Real Estate
The Niece
Nadine from Rostock
Ice Cream! Hot Dogs! Bra Tops!
Twirl
Nurses Who Smoked
Moon Prayers
Bout 25 to Ringside to Be Gloved
It's Your Father's Summer Workshop
What the Indians Do
Scumbags

OUT OF PRINT

Volume 19, Number 2 (2005)

Contents

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
RICHARD WIRICK
MAX APPLE
PAUL SEGAR
SEVERO SARDUY
JOHN BARTH
STEPHANIE AUSTIN
JO McKENDRY
BRETT BERK
ANER SHALEV
DAVID J. SNYDER
WILLIAM GIRALDI
VALERIE BRELINSKI
LISA WOHL
MARK JAY MIRSKY

Do Butterflies Eat Ashes?

Scorpion Days
Adventures in Dementia
Book of the Dead
Beach Birds
Tell Me
Blind Dates & Virgins
Mount Morgan
Mitch
Write It Down
Shoveling
No Names
False Alarm
Family Act
Knock

Volume 19, Number 1 (2004)

Contents

AHARON APPELFELD
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN

MURIEL MOULTON
ISAAC BABEL
SUZY SPRAKER
LIZA LORWIN
RAINER MARIA RILKE

STACY M. TINTOCALIS
LINDSAY AHL
ANNAPURNA POTLURI
JOHN SULLIVAN
DINA RABADI
MEINRAD INGLIN
ROBERT DAWSON
JENNIFER S. DAVIS
DAN CARPENTER
ROBERT MENASSE
WILLIAM CLIFFORD

ERIKA T. WURTH
PETER MOORE SMITH
PAULA BOMER
TRICIA CURRANS-SHEEHAN
MEI CHIN
CATHLEEN CALBERT
R. CLIFTON SPARGO
MARIT FØLSTAD

Our Ranks
Who Weeps When One of Us Goes Down Blues
War Zone
Three Letters
Dead In Places
Fair Maid
From: The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge
Another Kind of Sleep
The Sound a Leopard Makes
A Day at Home
Don't Let Her Get Away
Silver Boxes
The Furggel
No One Without Qualities
Lily, Love
Working Title Snow
Long Time No See
The Simple Truth Behind the Notorious Last Smile of Toby Fowler
Whitehorse Love
Animal Gratitude
She Was Everything to Him
Field Organizer
Checking Out
My Argentine
Sincerity
Photo Stills from BUBBLES

Volume 18, Number 2 (2003)

Contents

ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
NATHAN HILL
SANDRA BASS
JAMES BOICE
NATHAN CRICK
AMY BELK
THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA
ELEANOR LEVINE
KATE KRAUTKRAMER
MARK SABA
KEVIN FRAZIER
LIANE GABORA
SHEILA KOHLER
I.  Y. HASHIMOTO
ALISON LOWENSTEIN
JOONSEONG PARK
RICHARD CASS
MATTHEW W. MANN
DAVID ROSEN
ANNA SABAT
MARK JAY MIRSKY
MARK O’DONNELL
MARK JAY MIRSK
WILLIAM ALFRED

The Next One
Bottle
The Children
Halfway House
Eulogy for a Martyr
The Repose of the Dead
Hannah’s Birthday
Extension501
Skeleton Coast
Ada
Haircuts by Stell
The Violation
Strelizia or Learning to Write
And Lunch With Bobette....
Rescuing Rachel Fine
Packuh
Cutting In
The Tourist
Authority Figures in 11 Examples
Soap
William Alfred As I Remember Him
William Alfred
Preface
The Duty of Delight: A Memoir

Volume 18, Number 1 (2002)

Contents

CURZIO MALAPARTE
LEO HWANG
FUMIKO ENCHI
WILLIAM GIRALDI
ROBERT MUSIL
GEOFF SCHMIDT
JIM SHEPARD
STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ
JOYCE CAROL OATES
KIRK NESSET
LAURIE HOROWITZ
STEVEN LEE BEEBER
ANTHONY W. BROWN
JOSEF HASLINGER
TODD JAMES PIERCE
MARK JAY MIRSKY

Murdered (1956)
The Forgotten Art
Kimono
The Palms of Their Hands
Further Excerpts from the Diaries
The Canal
The Assassination of Reinard Heydrich
Feeding the People
The Mutants
Nicaragua
Alice’s Geometry
Coffee
Elephants
The Battle for Vienna
Day of the Dead
The College Magician

Volume 17, Number 2 (2001)

Contents

ISMAIL KADARÉ

PAUL SHEPHERD
ELLEN WINTER
JANE EATON HAMILTON
CAMILO JOSÉ CELA
ALICE KAPLAN
JOHN A. McCAFFREY
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
LUCY BUCKNELL
MARK JAY MIRSKY
GENESE GRILL
ROBERT MUSIL
DENNIS SHERMAN
TARA WRAY
GEOFFREY B. TRUMBO
GERT HOFMANN
WILLIAM POWERS
JESSIE SHOLL
RITA J. DOUCETTE
EARL COLEMAN
BEN-ZION ZYSERMAN GOLD
RAJ PARAMESWARAN
JERRY GABRIEL

Before the Bath
Notes from the Office of the Harbormaster
More Like Not Running Away
Tiddlywinks
Wax Brains
From: Boxwood
The Headhunters
Words
Tchaikovsky’s Bust
The Olive
Preface
Critical Introduction
Three Other Women
Joan of Arc
A Sometimes Never Mother
Mom’s Dinner With Burklee
From: Luck
North
Girl in the Distance
Bullet Adagio
Big C Little a
A Guest for the Passover Seder
International
Reagan’s Army In Retreat

Volume 17, Number 1 (2001)

Contents

ISAAC BABEL

ROBERT SOLOMON
THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI
JO McKENDRY
ROGER GRENIER
SHEILA KOHLER
MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI

KLAUS MANN
RUTH FÜGLISTALLER
ROSEMARY FARRELL
CATHLEEN CALBERT
LILY TUCK
PATRICK J. MURPHY
LAURA DENHAM
JEANNE LEIBY
ALCINA LUBITCH DOMECQ
NANETTE LERNER

In Petlyura’s Prison
Three in the Afternoon
Dancing Lobsters
Before the Move
Playing Dead
A House on the Place des Fêtes
Arequipe and Smoke
Nitta
Moonwort
Gimietto
You’ll See
Sunday Baths
Modifications
The Goal Keeper
Simply Too Early
Loyal
A Place Alone
Ur
Strausberg