My new wife took very few possessions with her when she left Peru, mostly blouses and books and clumps of the hot pepper aji wrapped in cellophane, but she did remember to pack her photograph of her father. It was a cloudy black-and-white shot taken in 1960 on his fifty-fourth birthday, two years before his…
When you wash them do it gently with a mild soap and lightly swish. Silken, seamed, off-black, mist, dotted, patterned in some way, support, light support, sheer, nude, coal, reinforced toe, taupe, suntan, ivory, smoke, they’re in there now all crossed over through the small accumulation of bubbles which gather at the edges of your…
What strikes you first about Al Young is the voice. It’s a deejay’s voice — articulate; engaging; most of all, smooth — so it’s not surprising to find out that for several years, Young hosted jazz shows in Detroit for WDET and in Berkeley for KJAZ, worked as a public radio announcer, and performed as…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Sue Miller Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Assistant Editor Peter O'Malley Staff Assistants: Barbara Lewis and Stephanie Booth. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Karen Wise, Barbara Lewis, Maryanne O'Hara, Holly LeCraw Howe, Christine Flanagan, Michael Rainho, Tanja Brull, Phillip Carson, Sara Nielsen…
Do it instinctively, like washing your hands or fumbling for your glasses on the night table in the morning, even though, for a small ritual, it is complicated, a minefield of subtleties, an act of aspiration, self-hatred, theatrics. Stand before the full-length mirror on your closet door. You are dressed already, though your hair is…
It is perhaps the height of optimism to try to structure an issue of a literary magazine around some single subject or theme. There is clearly the notion that, floating around out there, waiting to be beckoned, are the requisite ten or twelve or fourteen fine stories which will exactly fit, which will make an…
There is something very reassuring about Sue Miller. At forty-nine, she is a strong, vibrantly intelligent woman at the height of her career. The author of three best-selling. critically-acclaimed novels — The Good Mother, Family Pictures, and the recently released For Love — she is poised, confident, and affable. She is a soothing presence, by…
My bathroom mirror is a window with a sash I could throw open if it were not painted shut. Above it hangs a transparent pane high enough to frame the sky. Usually I forget this, as in the evening while putting on my makeup I am surprised by a streak of orange or zigzag of…
My husband often traced what he called the minor flaws of my character to Kansas City, Missouri-a city he placed in the dead middle of the Midwest, a “stunningly homogeneous” town, he liked to say, where it must have been horrifyingly easy for me to grow up believing untruths about the world. Often enough I…
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