Author: Scott LaClaire

High Lonesome

By Melissa Range
From the Winter 2002 Issue
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Suddenly & Hearing Roy Orbison on the Tape Loop at Starbuck’s

By J. T. Barbarese
From the Winter 2002 Issue
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Lesson

By Clare Rossini
From the Winter 2002 Issue
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One Last Time, for Old Times’ Sake

By Frederick Busch
From the Winter 2002 Issue
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Frederick Busch (1941–2006) was a prolific short-story writer and an award-winning novelist. Professor of literature at Colgate University from 1966 to 2003, he authored twenty-seven books and more than one hundred short stories and essays. His many honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award for fiction in 1986 and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction in 1991.

That Cried to the Whole City “Sleep No More”

By Gina Franco
From the Winter 2002 Issue
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Taste and the Open Door (on The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young; Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962, edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young; and Poets of the New Century, edited by Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson)

By Jeff Gundy
From the Spring 2003 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.”

 

Modern Writers, Modern Lives (on Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley; Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein; Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi; Flannery O’Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash; Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life by Hubert H. McAlexander; and Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd)

By Greg Johnson
From the Spring 2003 Issue
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Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.

on Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference by Mark Edmundson

By Sanford Pinsker
From the Spring 2003 Issue
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on It Wasn’t All Dancing and Other Stories by Mary Ward Brown

By Laura Smith
From the Spring 2003 Issue
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