Narrative Magazine Fall Issue 2009 - Softcover

Jenks, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979872774 ISBN 13: 9780979872778

Publisher: Narrative Magazine, 2009

Synopsis

The great new Fall 2009 issue from NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM offers an excerpt from Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler’s ingenuous novel Hell, revealing the eternal fates of Dick Cheney, J. Edgar Hoover, Sylvia Beach, and many other infamous characters. In a personally revealing, humorous vein, Melanie Gideon’s “Mattress Wars,” excerpted from her best-selling book, The Slippery Year, relates the perils of sharing a bed. Award-winning novelist Ann Packer’s short story “Molten” takes a mother deep into the lyrics of her lost son’s rock music collection and transports her into a confrontation with the mother of the child her son gave his life to save. Plus, Pia Z. Ehrhardt’s heartful interview with the great Gail Godwin accompanies an excerpt from Godwin’s new epic novel, Unfinished Desires. The issue rounds out with Tom Grimes’s “Water for New Delhi,” an ironic tale about Western philanthropic efforts to address a water crisis in Indian slums; new stories from master writers Richard Bausch and Janet Burroway; an essay by Joyce Carol Oates about mentors and one by David Bradley on jazz; fiction by important newcomers Adam Atlas and Evan James Roskos; poetry by Sherwin Bitsui, Stephen Dobyns, Laura Kasischke, Ben Lerner, Charlie Smith, and Connie Wanek; Broadway lyricist Lynn Ahrens’s Best Advice; Letters to a Young Writer by Ann Beattie and Carol Edgarian; great cartoons; book reviews; a wonderful Reader’s Narrative and a classic tale by Ambrose Bierce. Nowhere can a greater collection of periodical literary art be found. Don’t miss this wonderful issue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Narrative Magazine
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979872774
• ISBN 13: 9780979872778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250