Month: August 2016

Spring at Arm’s Length

By Charles Vandersee
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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Untitled

By Laura Fargas
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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“Frankenstein” and the Anatomy of Horror

By James B. Twitchell
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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Werewolfness

By Baron Wormser
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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The Faithful

By Michael Waters
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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Michael Waters’s recent and forthcoming books include The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Celestial Joyride (BOA Editions, 2016), and a coedited anthology, Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (Knopf, 2019). A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, Waters teaches at Monmouth University and for the Drew University MFA program. He is also the recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Ride Fly, Penetrate Loiter

By Barry Hannah
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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The Final Prospect

By Carl L. Stach
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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Novena

By Mary Swander
From the Spring 1983 Issue
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“At Least I Have Made a Woman of Her”: Images of Women in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Joyce Carol Oates
From the Spring 1983 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).