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American Theater Watch, 2005–2006

By Gerald Weales
From the Fall/Winter 2006 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.

The Accretions

By Derek Sheffield
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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Derek Sheffield’s poetry collection Through the Second Skin (Orchises Press, 2013) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. His work has also appeared recently in the Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and AGNI. He lives with his family on the east slopes of the Cascades and is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.

The Cosmetic Surgeon Comes to Glory River

By David Huddle
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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David Huddle taught at the University of Vermont for thirty-eight years, and he continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English. His most recent books are Dream Sender, a poetry collection (LSU Press, 2015), and My Immaculate Assassin, a novel (Tupelo Press, 2016). In 2019 his new novel Hazel will be published by Tupelo, and his new poetry collection, My Surly Heart, by LSU.

Conscientious Thinking: Fundamentalism, Nihilism, and the Problem of Value during the Demise of the Scientific Worldview

By David Bosworth
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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David Bosworth’s two most recent books, historical studies of cultural change, are The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession (Front Porch Republic, 2014) and Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants (University of Georgia Press, 2017). A resident of Seattle, he is a professor in (and the former director of) the University of Washington’s creative-writing program.

I’m Glorious in My Destruction Like an Atomic Bomb

By Diane Seuss
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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Diane Seuss’s Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open won the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming this spring from the University of Massachusetts Press. Recent work has appeared in Poetry, New Orleans Review, Brevity, and Blackbird. Seuss is currently writer in residence at Kalamazoo College.

“Into the Hectic Unknown”: Correspondence from the Archives of The Georgia Review, 1947-76

By Conrad Aiken, Pearl S. Buck, Leo Connellan, Harry Crews, James Dickey, Albert Einstein, T. S. Eliot, Jesse Hill Ford, John Gardner, George Garrett, Richard Howard, Katherine Anne Porter, Lewis P. Simpson, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Evelyn Waugh, E. B. White, Edmund Wilson, and others
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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The Novel

By Frank X. Gaspar
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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Magnitude

By Tracy Daugherty
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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Piano, with Distance

By Marianne Boruch
From the Fall/Winter 2006 Issue
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Marianne Boruch

Marianne Boruch’s ten poetry collections include the recent title The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia last year at the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Studies Institute, observing the astonishing wildlife to write a book-length sequence, a neo-ancient/medieval bestiary, which is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. The poems in this issue are a part of that collection.