23.1 | FALL/WINTER 1996

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Mindy Wilson                       MANAGING EDITOR: Christopher Chambers

FICTION EDITOR: Jim Hilgartner       POETRY EDITOR: Anthony Caleshu

DESIGN EDITOR: Michael Fallon

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Jill Christman, Lainee Frizzo, Eric Johnson, K.P. Johnson, Michael Mejia, Joe Veltre, Eliot Wilson

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Melanie Carter, Melissa Huseman, Robert McKay, Catie Rosemurgy, Dave Sorrell, Susan Stocker, Robert Wooten, Theodore Worozbyt

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Rick Adams

FICTION

George Clark: St. Besse’s Gift

Rebecca Eagle: Have You Seen Me?

Stephen Graham Jones: Paleogenesis, Circa 1970

Anna Keesey: Be My Boo Radley 

Keith Lee Morris: In the Lobby of the Hotel St. Marie 

NONFICTION

William Black: Necessary Excesses: On Writers in Search of Literature’s Relevance 

POETRY

Stephen Berg: Beds  |  Hands Refracted in a Glass of Beer

Erin Brooks: Hay Tag  |  Burning the Laundry

Nancy Vieira Couto: Chemical Sins  |  After the Engaging Diversion

Timothy Geiger: Einstein and the Ants

David Jauss: The Wandering Between Worlds

Kate Northrop: The Servant Girl  |  Story: 1

Reginald Shepherd: He and Sleep Were Brothers

Christine Sneed: If Camus Had Asked Me to Write a Love Scene

Philip St. Clair: Almost Everyone’s Story  |  The First Day of Lent  |  Hedda and Her Sisters

Lee Upton: Civilian Histories 

Sam Witt: Listening Room

FEATURE

Interview

Rob Trucks: A Conversation with Rick Moody

Reviews

Dev Hathaway  |  Jennifer Horne  |  Jonathan Hershey  |  Jeanne Leiby  |  Jeff Mock  |  Kennette H. Wilkes

ART

Elijah Gowin: Photographs

Santiago Uceda: cover art

CHAPBOOK

Dave Smith: Tremble