Winter 1979

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Winter 1979

Table of Contents

Essays

A Master Class: From the Correspondence of Caroline Gordon and Flannery O’Connor

By Sally Fitzgerald

A Portrait of the Artist as Mother: Harriette Arnow and “The Dollmaker”

By Glenda Hobbs

Eudora Welty and the City of Man

By Elmo Howell

Flannery O’Connor and “The Business of the Purified Mind”

By Barbara McKenzie

Gertrude Stein and the Problems of Autobiography

By James E. Breslin

Looking Back at the First Story

By Eudora Welty

The Quality of Mercy, or Mrs. Warren’s Profession

By Gerald Weales

Fiction

A Country Girl

By Mary Hood

Death of a Traveling Salesman

By Eudora Welty

Fra Lippi and Me

By Harriette Simpson ArnowGlenda Hobbs

Poetry

from Painting the House

By Joan Joffe Hall

A Fugue

By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Absence

By Kathy Mangan

Back Country

By Joyce Carol Oates

Chippewa Jack, the Mayor, and Jimmy McFee

By Mary Oliver

Empty Glass

By Kathryn Stripling Byer

Epilogue & Prologue

By Linda Pastan

Graces

By Debora Greger

Herbs in the Attic

By Marilyn Nelson Waniek

Ice Fishing

By Magdaline Quinlan

If Justice Moved

By Bettie M. Sellers

In the Taxidermist’s Shop

By Siv Cedering Fox

Letter to a Censor

By Kelly Cherry

Mardi Gras Reverie

By Katherine Soniat

Motherhood

By Susan Ludvigson

Not Going Out Today

By Ann Douglas

Nothing Happened

By Betty Adcock

Shared Visions

By Paula Rankin

Small Town

By Rita Dove

The Dark Hinges

By Chase Twichell

Trestle

By Allison Funk

Art

Mattie Lou O’Kelley: American Folk Artist

By Linda RamkeBin Ramke

Reviews

“It Really Happened” (on The Diary of “Helena Morley.” “Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century” series by Elizabeth Bishop)

By Stephen Tapscott

on A Christina Stead Reader by Jean B. Read

By Diane Cole

on Silences by Tillie Olsen

By Iris Tillman Hill

on The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch

By Frederick Ferré

on The Love Child by Eve Shelnutt

By Melissa Fay Greene

on Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel by John Orr

By Geoffrey Green

The History of an Illusion (on The History of Sexuality; Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley; & A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard)

By Richard Vine

The Teller as the Tale (on Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick; & Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman)

By Brina Caplan

Triptych of Excellence (on The Sitwells: A Family’s Biography by John Pearson)

By Christine Lahey-Dolega

Violence, Imagery, and Introspection (on Killing Floor by Ai; The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan; & Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman)

By Peter Stitt

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