Summer 2007 Contributors

Derik Badman blogs at MadInkBeard and writes reviews for various publications.

Chris Eichler studied photography and painting at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. View his work at his website.

Scott Esposito’s writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Small Spiral Notebook, The Chattahoochee Review, Boldtype, and the Rain Taxi Review of Books, among others. He blogs at Conversational Reading.

John Fox has taught at various colleges in the Los Angeles area and is currently studying creative writing at the University of Southern California. His literary blog is BookFox.

Aron Gent is a Chicago-based photographer. He creates large format narrative images dealing with family and the delicate relationships that exist within them. See his website.

Richard Grayson is the author of Highly Irregular Stories, With Hitler in New York, The Silicon Valley Diet, and other books. A retired teacher and lawyer, he divides his time between Brooklyn and Phoenix.

John Allan Harrison lives and reads in Maine.

Contributing editor Barrett Hathcock’s work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the MacGuffin, and the Birmingham Weekly. Read his essay “Howdy Neighbor” from issue 6 here.

Sam Jones writes about fiction and poetry on his Chicago-based literary blog, Golden Rule Jones. He works as an executive at a San Francisco Bay Area software company.

Megan Keane is a yoga instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Javier Moreno will probably go back to Illinois to defend his thesis one of these days. In the meantime, he lives in Barcelona. He is part of the editorial team of Hermano Cerdo, a regular contributor to Pie de Página and Ocho y Medio, and the author of La balada del elefante azul, a blog about elephants and mathematical logic.

The author of numerous novels, Lance Olsen is also chair of Fiction Collective Two’s board of directors and an associate editor with American Book Review. His most recent book is Anxious Pleasures.

Ahmad Saidullah is a writer living in Canada. His book Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories will be published in 2008.

Rebecca Smeyne has since shown her work at Jen Bekman Gallery and in Tim Barber’s Tiny Vices. Her work has appeared in Anthem Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Press, and Chief Magazine. She is also the editor-in-chief and principal photographer for MyOpenBar.com and a guest curator and advisor of the Humble Arts Organization.

Contributing editor Elizabeth Wadell’s work can be read in issues 2, 4, and others.

Scott Bryan Wilson is a frequent contributor to The Quarterly Conversation.

ISSUE 8

Summer 2007

Features

How to Feed the Monster

Two years ago, Brad Vice’s debut short story collection was pulled after plagarism charges. Now the collection has been published. Barrett Hathcock wants to know if the charges were legit, if the book is worth reading, and what it all means.

Roberto Bolaño: A naïve introduction to the geometry of his fictions

In Bolaño’s novels, themes, ideas, events, and even characters constantly recur. Javier Moreno has figured out how to fit all the books together. Turns out to be a triangle.

Educating Bolaño’s Orphans

Four years ago, Bolaño’s first English-language translation was published. Now, four books later and with Bolaño a legitimate phenomenon, Scott Esposito reassesses Bolaño’s first book and wonders why Bolaño has become so popular so fast.

reviews

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani

The Last Novel by David Markson

The Assistant by Robert Walser

Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

Interviews

The Chris Andrews Interview

The Natasha Wimmer Interview

The C.M. Mayo Interview

Contributor Notes

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