Vol. 78 no. 2

Winter 2012

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editor’s Note, Robert Stewart

FICTION

We Grow Accustomed to Our Troubles, Sophie Rosenblum

Schooling, Dana Fitz Gale

Dr. Paracelsus and the Drifter, Willis Barnstone

ESSAY

City of the Dead, J. Malcolm Garcia

Toward Oceans 101, Sara Flood

The Freuds, the Tiffanys & Me, Lynn Burlingham

POETRY

Two Poems, Jeanne Marie Beaumont 
Visiting the Ruins, Alice Friman 
The Reckoning, Martina Evans 
Four Poems, Doris Ferleger 
Two Poems, Gail Hanlon 
The Seasons of Language Revolt, Dan Jaffe 
Three Poems, Linda Pastan 
Three Poems, Stephen DunnTime Travel, Christopher Buckley 
thinking back these eighty-eight years, Peter Cooley

INTERVIEW

The Freedom to Act, an interview with Harry Crews, conducted by Rodney Elrod

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

Salinger in His Time & Ours, on the biography by Kenneth Slawenski, Conger Beasley, Jr.

Fragments in the Bed:Review of Walk Me to Schenectady by Diana O’Hehir and Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Robert Stewart

Like Newcomers Everywhere, Review of When We Were Strangers by Pameal Schoenwaldt, Catherine Browder

The Moment Stands Still: Poetry from Brick Books, Kristina Marie Darling

Jammed-Up Individuals, Review of Word Comix by Charlie Smith, Robert Stewart

ARTWORK

Photographs by Thomas Zvi Wilson, J. Malcolm Garcia & Robert W. Butler