Vol. 73 no. 4

Summer 2007

EDITOR’S NOTE

Readership & Awards, Robert Stewart

FICTION

Dharnakarna, Padma Viswanathan 

Transaction, Stuart Dybek 

Sundown at Trimble, Edward A. Quigley 

ESSAY

Laughter, Harry Roskolenko 

Bovine Dreams, Margaret McCarty-Ozemet 

A Lesson in Russian Classics

 Elena Gorokhova 

POETRY

The Bone Reader, Harry Humes 
Three Poems, Jane Springer 
Glose, Marilyn Hacker 
Two Poems, Simon Perchik
The Gospel of the Dirt, John Mark Eberhart 
Question After the Poetry Reading, Marilyn Kallet  

Illness, Jo McDougall 
Her Gotham, Jace Miller 

INTERVIEW

Conditions for an Accident, conducted by Michael Pritchett, Stuart Dybek 

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

Literary Novels Lift Above Detective Fiction Legacy, on Katie Esill and Kim Addonizio, Peter Wolfe 

Time and Other Truths, on the stories of Donn Irving, Catherine Browder 

Tales from Missouri Bayou Country, on the stories of Judith Baker Jones, Catherine Browder 

ARTWORK

Sculptures by Garry Noland
Photographs by Judy Ray
Mixed Media artwork by Alice Maud Guldbrandsen
Comics by Robert Crumb, Carol Tyler, Jamie Hernandez, Seth