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