by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
by Michael Kriesel | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Kitchen necromancer, mom unburiesthe washer each week from its shallow graveof crochet magazines, Wonder Bread bagsof phone bills, coupons clipped and saved towardssome unexpired future where Point Beer doesn’t trump groceries. She even saved the washer box....
by Kathleen Dale | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
At seventy, the final thing she wantedto learn was to dive: to tuck her chin to her chest, betweenher outstretched arms and to fall headfirst toward the bottom she had bothfeared and yearned for since she had first seen water—the still pooluntouched, unrippled, heavy...
by Jessi Peterson | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
White clapboard worn to silver sitsstraddling the crest of a dark wave of soil, sailing a froth of sand atop the dark, implacable earth.Below us in the trough, hidden now by the sprayoff June’s green bowsprit runs the river, the current towards which we are...
by Laurel Landis | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
HE HAD TO BEND A LITTLE TO SEE WHAT SHE’D SEEN. In the distance, beneath the lower branches of the pine trees, the meadow formed a lush rectangle, as green and luminous as moss. He closed his eyes and saw the bear there; imagined Gwen’s camera click. She...
by Dean Bakopoulos | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Dean Bakopoulos was born and raised in metro Detroit, which is the setting of his first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon (2008), a New York Times Notable Book. He has lectured at Michigan, Cornell, UW–Madison, and other universities about the economic...
