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Summer Issue Bonus: Koster, Langemak, Luongo

Summer Issue Bonus: Koster, Langemak, Luongo

While we wait for the winter 2011 issue (out next month!), we’ve assembled some great bonus material from our summer 2010 issue. We asked all the writers in issue 7.1  to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue …

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Poetry

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Poetry

Don Bogen on Ashley Seitz Kramer’s Prize-Winning Poem: What I especially admire in “Winter Storyboard” is the way it builds. There’s a sense of confidence and deft control behind the rhetoric and varied syntax here, and the pacing is exquisite. With each couplet we are led deeper into a world of nature, the eccentric, and …

Exley Exley & Exley

Exley Exley & Exley

Brock Clarke—our dear old fiction editor who left UC for a frozen northern region—is returning to the Nati for one night only. His new novel, Exley, is just out, and this coming Monday (October 11) at 7 pm, he will read from the book at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Rookwood Pavilion. Join us for the event …

Best American Fantasy Series

Best American Fantasy Series

We’re sad to learn that the Best American Fantasy series has been discontinued. The BAF editors curated three excellent, provocative anthologies that challenged genre boundaries and championed a wide array of weird, unsettling stories. We were looking forward to reading more—and we’re proud that four stories from our last two issues, not to mention a …

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Prose

Winner of the Schiff Prize in Prose

Michael Griffith on Theodore Wheeler’s Prize-Winning Story: In Theodore Wheeler’s “The Current State of the Universe,” a man working for a professional vengeance service discovers that the arithmetic of justice may turn out to be, on second thought, more like the hopelessly bewildering multivariable calculus of justice. The piece is a fantastic example of a …

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