Four Cornell Boxes
Rosmarie Waldrop
From Plowing the Dark
Richard Powers
Portrait of William Gaddis
Julian Schnabel
Design for a Footbridge
Frank O. Gehry and Richard Serra
A Note of Gratitude
Sarah Gaddis
What Begins With Bird
Noy Holland
Memories of Master Gaddis
William H. Gass
Three Poems
John Ashbery
Ten Thousand in the Round
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Mr. Gaddis
Joy Williams
The Sharpshooter
Joyce Carol Oates
From Little Casino
Gilbert Sorrentino
Five Poems
Peter Sacks
The Impunity of the Sacred Car
Jose Guadalupe Posada, Eduardo Galeano and Translated by Mark Fried
The New Calendar
Norman Manea
Earthshine
Arthur Sze
Where Europe Begins
Translated by Susan Bernofsky and Yoko Tawada
The Eighteen Days
Jonathan Safran Foer and Isaac Bashevis Singer
Medium
Sandra Newman
Songs at Climate Level
Mark McMorris
Dressing Up Our Pets
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Roses from the South
Paul West
Five Poems
Reginald Shepherd
The Country Road
Carol Azadeh
Five Poems
Malinda Markham
The Intercession of Saints
Carole Maso
From Minding the Darkness
Peter Dale Scott
Filophilia
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Seven Veils
Thalia Field
Rome Burns
Michael Counts
Heldenplatz
Translated by Gitta Honegger and Thomas Bernhard
Remembering Gaddis
D.  and A. Pennebaker
Cover art by Richard Serra: Pickman’s Progress, 1998. Collections: François Pinault, Paris, France
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