Summer 2015
Table of Contents
Essays
Bastards
Obliquity: On the Faces of Earth
Fiction
Golden Gloves
The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot
White Bird
Who Will Open the Door?
Poetry
BAIT BALL
Failure of Imagination in the Gothic Quarter & Feeling Sorry for Myself after an Ex-Girlfriend Returned All of My Old Love Letters in 2015
I Want a Big Corny Wink & The Perfect Pitch
Of Mischief and the Moon
Vase
Young Gloria Swanson as the Lion’s Bride
Reviews
Faithful Are the Wounds (on Zachary Leader’s The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915–1964)
Just Who Is This Oscar Wilde Person, Anyway? (on David M. Friedman’s Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity; Roy Morris Jr.’s Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America; & Antony Edmonds’ Oscar Wilde’s Scandalous Summer: The 1894 Worthing Holiday and the Aftermath)
on Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
on Now We Will Be Happy by Amina Gautier
on The Wilds by Julia Elliott
on Unaccompanied Minors by Alden Jones
To Make It New (on Barbara Hamby’s On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems; Charlie Smith’s Jump Soul: New and Selected Poems; & B. H. Fairchild’s The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems)
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