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 Jane Sadusky | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
They are long forgotten by anyone living. I remember, we say. But we are so often wrong. We know something from the archive of photographs and script and type. We get fragments of the stories from largely unreliable narrators, narrators drawn to the comforting, the...
by J.K. Dane | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Someone has stolen my glasses again. I suspect Sylvia Shapiro because she can’t quit crowing about how darling she thinks they are. I think they’re gaudy. My daughter Dorothy bought them for me, but now they are gone. I also suspect Bobby. ...
