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Her Literal One; Won’t Let Go; Goliath and the Barbarians; Ramses the Second; & “The Burden of Modernity”: The Book, the God, the Child

By Albert Goldbarth
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, most recently Selfish (2015), Everyday People (2012), and The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972–2007 (2007), all from Graywolf Press. He has twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.

Unfinished Symphony

By Barry N. Malzberg Batya Swift Yasgur
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Occam’s Razor

By Stephen Gibson
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Thomas Eakins on Painting

By Philip Dacey
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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The Lone Tree

By Donald Morrill
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Seven Roses & The Fire and the Rose

By Frank X. Gaspar
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Waiting for a Miracle: A Jew Goes Fishing

By Marjorie Sandor
From the Summer 1999 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.

Where Is Fire Headed?

By Paul Hamill
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Paul Hamill, who returns to The Georgia Review’s pages after two decades, is a retired college administrator and English professor. His work appears in many journals, including Mudlark and Front Porch Review. The latest of his four collections of poetry is a chapbook, Meeting the Minotaur (Split Oak Press, 2011).

Méthode Champenoise

By Liza Wieland
From the Summer 1999 Issue
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Liza Wieland’s third novel, A Watch of Nightingales (University of Michigan Press, 2009), won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award; her others are Bombshell (2001) and The Names of the Lost (1992), both from Southern Methodist University Press—which also published the second and third of her three story collections: You Can Sleep While I Drive (1999) and Quickening (2010). Wieland has won grants from the NEA, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council, as well as two Pushcart prizes. She teaches at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.