Fall 1999
Table of Contents
Special Feature
A Brief History of Punctuation
Essays
Bad Boy
Six Degrees of Fluency
Fiction
The Sound Is So Shallow Here
The Waiting Room
These Hands
Poetry
A Postmortem Guide
An Artist from Another Place
For
Meditation on Today’s Limit of Pleasure
Prisoner
The Background Beyond the Background
The Teachers Pass the Popcorn
What Writing Is
Art
Images of Faith
Reviews
American Theater Watch, 1998–1999
on Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the Piedmont by Mike Corbin
on The Atomic West by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay
on The Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers
On Their Own Premises (on Midnight Salvage: Poems, 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich; On the Bus With Rosa Parks by Rita Dove; Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes; The Snow Watcher by Chase Twichell; & The Watchers by Memye Curtis Tucker)
Pursuing the Self (on Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by James Olney; Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions by Michelle Citron; & Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness by Robin Hemley)
Why Literary Types (Often) Maintain Friendships That (Some) Public Intellectuals Can’t (on Ex-friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz; Cleanth Brooks And Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 by Alphonse Vinh; & The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams by Christopher MacGowan)
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