Going to the Tigers
ROBERT COHEN
Might some new style be necessary, one that's neither "plain" nor "lyrical" but dissolves the line between all such easy polarities
"No Opera": a new poem
DEREK WALCOTT
Musin's and Thinkin's: a monthly column
JACK PENDARVIS
García Márquez Goes to the Dentist
JULIO VILLANUEVA CHANG
As John Cheever once said, a story is "what you tell yourself in a dentist's office while you're waiting for an appointment."
What You Can't Learn Collecting Esoteric Books
ANDREA RICHARDS
Uncle Vernie's forgotten library reveals deep riches from the fringes of intellectual history, including several "harsh and gnarly cleanses.
The Bountiful Continent
CASEY WALKER
Is William T. Vollmann's study of the Imperial Valley his Moby-Dick? Or is it a 1,300-page letter to a woman who broke his heart
Becoming a Lady
AMELIE GILLETTE
The time-honored tradition of transforming girls into self-confident, slightly more polite, definitely less-drunk young women.
Sedaratives
BOB SAGET
A roundtable discussion moderated by DANIEL ALARCÓN
Three prizewinning Latino novelists living in the U.S. discuss the implications of writing in Spanish, English, and elsewhere
"American Gothic": a new poem
VIRGINIA KONCHAN
One-Page Book Reviews
Miranda Mellis on European fiction, Scott Indrisek on Joshua Ferris, Don Waters on Alyson Hagy,
Andrew Ervin on Sam Lipsyte, Meehan Crist on John D'Agata.
Comic
Edited by ALVIN BUENAVENTURA
Schema: Nine Famous Hypochondriacs
BRIAN DILLON
Real Life Rock Top Ten
GREIL MARCUS
Trent Reznor interviewed by BRANDON BUSSOLINI
How eighteen years in the cornfields of rural Pennsylvania with nothing but AM/FM radio created the Nine Inch Nails
Stanley Crawford in correspondence with NOY HOLLAND
An epistolary conversation between two great writers who grow things: she plants bulbs, he harvests 500 pounds of garlic a year
Sarah Waters micro-interviewed by PETER TERZIAN
A celebrated historical novelist has just published her first work without lesbian characters. The new book features ghosts.
