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The Gittel

By Marjorie Sandor
From the Fall 1984 Issue
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Marjorie Sandor’s forthcoming memoir, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction (Arcade/Skyhorse Publishing), will be her fourth book. Her linked story collection, Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (Sarabande, 2003), followed A Night of Music (Ecco, 1989) and won the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction; eight of her stories have appeared in GR. Sandor’s volume of essays The Night Gardener: A Search for Home (Lyons Press, 1999) won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction, and her work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, among others. Sandor directs the MFA program in creative writing at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

The List

By Carl Dennis
From the Fall 1984 Issue
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Wonderlands

By Joyce Carol Oates
From the Fall 1984 Issue
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Joyce Carol Oates is the author of some one hundred books in multiple genres, including the novel Little Bird of Heaven (2009), the story collection Sourland (2010), and the memoir A Widow’s Story (2011), all from Ecco. The 2010 recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement of the National Book Critics Circle, Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. Oates’s “Ballerina” appeared in our fortieth-anniversary retrospective (Spring 1986).

on Being Elsewhere by John P. Sisk

By Ethan Casey Phnom Penh
From the Spring 1996 Issue
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From the Dark Lady

By Miriam Flock
From the Fall 1984 Issue
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on The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene

By John D. Wade
From the Spring 1996 Issue
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on The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood by Andrew Hudgins

By Jeff Gundy
From the Spring 1996 Issue
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Jeff Gundy’s eighth book of poems, Without a Plea, was published in early 2019 by Bottom Dog Press. Recent poems and essays are in Cincinnati Review, River Teeth, Forklift, Ohio, Terrain, and Christian Century. He is at work on a series of lyric essays about the Illinois prairie with the working title “Wind Farm.”

 

on The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, edited by Michael McFee

By R. T. Smith
From the Spring 1996 Issue
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R. T. Smith is writer-in-residence at Washington and Lee University, where he edits Shenandoah. The latest of his many books are Outlaw Style: Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 2007) and a collection of stories, The Calaboose Epistles (Iris Press, 2009). His work has been reprinted in such notable anthologies as Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

on By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville, edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky

By Gerald Weales
From the Spring 1996 Issue
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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.