Winter 1979
Table of Contents
Essays
A Master Class: From the Correspondence of Caroline Gordon and Flannery O’Connor
A Portrait of the Artist as Mother: Harriette Arnow and “The Dollmaker”
Eudora Welty and the City of Man
Flannery O’Connor and “The Business of the Purified Mind”
Gertrude Stein and the Problems of Autobiography
Looking Back at the First Story
The Quality of Mercy, or Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Fiction
A Country Girl
Death of a Traveling Salesman
Fra Lippi and Me
Poetry
from Painting the House
A Fugue
Absence
Back Country
Chippewa Jack, the Mayor, and Jimmy McFee
Empty Glass
Epilogue & Prologue
Graces
Herbs in the Attic
Ice Fishing
If Justice Moved
In the Taxidermist’s Shop
Letter to a Censor
Mardi Gras Reverie
Motherhood
Not Going Out Today
Nothing Happened
Shared Visions
Small Town
The Dark Hinges
Trestle
Art
Mattie Lou O’Kelley: American Folk Artist
Reviews
“It Really Happened” (on The Diary of “Helena Morley.” “Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century” series by Elizabeth Bishop)
on A Christina Stead Reader by Jean B. Read
on Silences by Tillie Olsen
on The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
on The Love Child by Eve Shelnutt
on Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel by John Orr
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)
The Teller as the Tale (on Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick; & Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman)
Triptych of Excellence (on The Sitwells: A Family’s Biography by John Pearson)
Violence, Imagery, and Introspection (on Killing Floor by Ai; The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan; & Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman)
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