Winter 2007 Contributors
Matthew Cheney has published fiction and nonfiction with a wide variety
of venues, including One Story, Locus, Rain Taxi, Web Conjunctions, and
elsewhere. He is a regular columnist for the online magazine Strange
Horizons and runs the literary weblog The Mumpsimus.
Scott Esposito’s writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle,
The Chattahoochee Review, and Boldtype, among others. He blogs at
Conversational Reading.
J.C. Hallman is the author of The Chess Artist and The Devil is a Gentleman.
He is currently the Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College.
Barrett Hathcock’s work has
appeared in the Colorado Review, the MacGuffin Reader, and the Birmingham Weekly.
Dan McCarthy was born in Honolulu, HI, and received his BFA from
the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, where he’s represented by Anton Kern Gallery. He’s recently
had shows in Dresden, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Berlin.
The holder of a master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia, Brien Michael lives in Berkeley, CA.
Dave Munger’s work has appeared in Seed magazine. He blogs at Cognitive Daily.
Art editor Terri Saul’s paintings have been exhibited at galleries nationwide. Her
interview with Zak Smith
appeared in Issue 5.
Stephen Schenkenberg is a writer and editor living in Madison, WI. His work can be read in
The Believer, Identity Theory, and on his website.
M.S. Smith has a Ph.D. in British and European History and has published in several scholarly journals and books,
including A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain (Blackwell, 2004) and The Huntington Library Quarterly. He lives in California.
Assistant editor Elizabeth Wadell’s work can be read in The Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, as well as in The Quarterly Conversation
issues 2, 4,
and others.
Scott Bryan Wilson’s work has appeared in Rain Taxi and many other journals. He lives in New York City.
Winter 2007
Features
Basking in Hell: Returning to William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
William H. Gass’s 650-page novel The Tunnel is one of the most complex, challenging books published in English in the 1990s. Stephen Schenkenberg investigates two valuable offerings from the Dalkey Archive Press helping us understand this disagreeable and stunning novel.New Cliches: How Mulligan Stew Uses Old Lines to Slam Pretentious Authors
Mulligan Stew, considered by many to be Sorrentino’s greatest novel, is also probably the one in which his anger most powerfully dictates content. Yet, argues Scott Esposito, it’s not a rant, or a mere satire, but a literary masterpiece.World Cinema: The Independent Spirit of the Toronto International Film Festival
If the space for innovative cinema has shrunk over the course of two decades, unconquered territories still remain, perhaps even thrive, in the early 21st century. M.S. Smith discovers some of them at the Toronto International Film Festival.The Value of Religious Diversity
Is it correct to accept religion and science as squaring off across a red-blue scrimmage line? J.C. Hallman argues for a more inclusive view of each.Howdy Neighbor
John Updike is my neighbor. I have not talked to John Updike. He seems rather vaguely pissed off at me.What is Appropriate: Teaching Invitation to a Beheading, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Others to High Schoolers
Is it right to teach 12th-graders a book that involves blow jobs? Where should the line be drawn, and who should draw it? Teachers? Administrators? Matthew Cheney delves into his time as a teacher to find an answer as to what is appropriate.reviews
Whose Freedom?
Remember Me
Red the Fiend
Triangle
Suspension
Interviews
A Day at William T. Vollmann’s Studio
Contributor Notes
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