Issue 9: Myth, Magic, & Ritual

Nonfiction

• If you point to heaven, it begins. by Jenny Boully
• Among the Clouds by Mary Ruefle
• One Girl’s Theory by Mary Ruefle
• Slapping Clark Gable by Kate Zambreno
• New Strategies for Invisibility by Martin Seay
• “The Dime Store Version”: Bruce Springsteen and the Burden of Myth by Michael Kobre
• Valentine’s Day by Matthew Salesses
• Letter to Count Tolstoy by Tyler B. Myers

Fiction

• So Cold and Far Away by Lily Hoang and Kathleen Rooney
• Moral Census by Gennady Favel
• Giganti by Aaron Francis
• Hit the Ground Running by Jana Bruback
• The Religion of Insects by Caru Cadoc
• A House in Santiago by Luis Sepúlveda

Poetry

• from not Omaha by Christopher Mattison
• Recrement by Nate Zoba
• from Helsinki by Peter Richards
• from Lake Antiquity by Brandon Downing
• Hello Holly by Brandon Downing
• The Recidivistic Misfits by Dara Wier
• An Empty Meadow by Dara Wier
• Passé by Dara Wier
• First Impressions by Caryl Pagel
• The People Build by Cathy Park Hong
• Potions of Relative Success by Cathy Park Hong
• Sonnet by Cathy Park Hong
• Eat Shit and Die by Nick Demske
• Send Me Up the Wrong Side of Moth’s-Eyebrow Mountain by Anthony Madrid

Interview

I am the witch of the dance and my hex is disco: A Conversation with Irvine Welsh by Don De Grazia

Reviews

• A New Literary History of America Eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors/The Good Soldiers by David Finkel reviewed Weston Cutter
• The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño reviewed by Gabriel Levinson
• If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish reviewed by Jane Lewty
• Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman reviewed by Anthony Marra
• Review capsules

Visual Art Portfolio

• Katy Fischer
• Deva Graf
• Tim Werhle
• David Dunlap

On the Make

The Silver-Colored Yesterday: You Make Us Proud of Our Legs by Joseph Drogos

Contributing artists: Joseph Desler Costa, Stephen Eichhorn, Emile Ferris Maya Hayuk, Geoffrey Hamerlinck, Kenneth Josephson, Corey R. Lewis Carrie Scanga, Linda Panetta