Month: September 2016

The Nobel Prize and the Paper Men: The Fixing of William Golding

By E. C. Bufkin
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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Writers on Journalists: A Version of Atheism

By Robert B. Heilman
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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The Immoralities: Drunk All Afternoon

By T. R. Hummer
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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The End of Boredom

By John P. Sisk
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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Women at Forty & Family History

By Sonia Gernes
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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Time and Fear and Somehow Love

By Lee K. Abbott
From the Spring 1985 Issue
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Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short fiction, most recently All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories (W. W. Norton, 2006). His work has appeared ten times previously in The Georgia Review and in nearly one hundred other periodicals, including the Atlantic, Harper’s, Epoch, Southern Review, and Boulevard. His work has also been featured in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, Best of the West, and the Pushcart Prize. Twice a winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Abbott is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University, where he directs the MFA program in creative writing. “The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance,” the first of Abbott’s eight stories to appear in GR (Fall 1983), was included in our fortieth-anniversary retrospective (Spring 1986).

on James Dickey: The Poet As Pitchman by Neal Bowers

By Stephen Corey
From the Summer 1985 Issue
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Stephen Corey joined the staff of The Georgia Review in 1983 as assistant editor and subsequently served as associate editor, acting editor, and, from 2008 to his retirement in 2019, editor. His most recent book is Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Mercer University Press, 2017); he has also published nine collections of poems, among them There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press) and Synchronized Swimming (Livingston Press); his individual poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of periodicals; and he has coedited three books in as many genres, including (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press). In the spring of 2022, White Pine Press will bring out his As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems.

on Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature by Beth Ann Bassein

By Jacqueline Eis
From the Summer 1985 Issue
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on Unless Soul Clap Its Hands: Portraits and Passages by Erika Duncan

By Stephen Corey
From the Summer 1985 Issue
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Stephen Corey joined the staff of The Georgia Review in 1983 as assistant editor and subsequently served as associate editor, acting editor, and, from 2008 to his retirement in 2019, editor. His most recent book is Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Mercer University Press, 2017); he has also published nine collections of poems, among them There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press) and Synchronized Swimming (Livingston Press); his individual poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of periodicals; and he has coedited three books in as many genres, including (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press). In the spring of 2022, White Pine Press will bring out his As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems.