by Kathryn Gahl | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Foggy water. Watery fog. It enveloped the Alaskan ferry until the boat’s Chief Engineer, Miles Gopon, saw more than fog. He saw sheets of lace. Pink lace. Panties. They landed like soft light on the pilothouse floor, the last piece she removed before lifting one foot,...
by Ronnie Hess | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Readers who remember Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden’s joint memoir, A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), and The Walnut Cookbook (Ten Speed Press, 1998), written by Jean-Luc Toussaint but translated and...
by Bob Wake | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“The power of human desire is matched only by our inability to express those desires,” explains Matthew Garth, the teenage narrator of Larry Watson’s American Boy. Set in the fictional small town of Willow Falls, Minnesota in 1962, Watson’s sharply observed novel...
by Greg Hettmansberger | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“Four rational people conversing” was how the brilliant writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described to a friend in 1829 the genre of the string quartet. By this time in history, the particular ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello had been established for...
by Christie Taylor | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Sometime between the hen and the singing harp, Jack’s mother changes hermind. Yes, the gold eggs glitter in the morning, yes, she eats off coins the size of saucers, yes, she knows tomorrow he will bring another wonder down thebeanstalk and the whole village...
