From Winter 1988 Explore This Issue Kid Gloves By Sharon Bryan From the Winter 1988 Issue ← Comedy and Cultural Timing: The Lessons of Robert Benchley and Woody Allen → Isn’t It Gothic? (on Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard; Ghostly Populations by Jack Matthews; Mourner at the Door by Gordon Lish; The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates; & Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath)