Issue 16

STAFF

Editors: Paul Gediman & David Elliot Kidd
Managing Editor: Louisa C. Brinsmade
Poetry Editors: Richard Dock & Sarah Kennedy
Fiction Editors: Thomas Beller & Steve Hill
Nonfiction Editor: Philip Gourevitch
Production Manager: Darlene Gold
Assistant Nonfiction Editor: Eric Elshtain
Benefit Chair: Katherine Heiny & Jennifer Richardson

Editorial Board
Thelma Adams, Ruth Ades, Aldo Alvarez, Paulina Borsook, Kira Budoff, Hilton Caston, Sarah Coleman, Elizabeth Crowell, Elena Giamatti, John Gray, Jeffrey Grossman, Elizabeth Hill, James B. Lee, Lynn McGovern, Suzanne Osmun, Claudia Quiroz, Joshua Sinel, Peter Stork, Barbara Tran

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fiction
Deborah J. Schupack/ Inside Out
Michael Hickins/ Lion Heartbreak
Christopher Woods/ Two Rooms
Madison Smartt Bell/ from Doctor Sleep
Tereze Gluck/ The Coast of Massachusetts
A Manette Ansay/ Smoke
Dan Leone/ The Bone

Poetry
Christopher Merrill/ Rosehips
Jose Gorostiza/ Del Poema Frustrado
Stan Goto/ Mirror in the Men’s Room (Mapplethorpe Exhibit, March 1990)
Joel Huerta/ Cuauhtemoc Calendar, and Cubism
Judith Skillman/ Labor’s Child
Rick Lott/ Playing in Harvest Time

Writers From Czechoslovakia
Milan Simecka/ Thoughts on a Post-Dissident Culture
Joachim Topol/ The Story of Revolver Revue
Iva Pekarkova/ Tourist in My Homeland
Jaroslav Vejvoda/ A Tragic Choice
Ivan Klima/ Love and Garbage
Lubomir Martinek/ Peregrintions
Karel Hvizdala/ Also My Homeland
Philip Gourevitch/ An Interview with Josef Skvorecky