Spring 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Two Stories
John Edgar Wideman

Ashes Ashes We All Fall Down
Mary Caponegro

Mexico Next Right
Sandra Cisneros

The Dark
Paul West

Mrs. Hollingworth’s List
Padgett Powell

Inishmurray
Maureen Howard

Accident Report
Paul Auster

From Versailles
Kathryn Davis

Swan Lake
Steve Erickson

The Sleepwalker
William T. Vollmann

Laura Warholic
Alexander Theroux

El Hombre Pollack
Translated by Edith Grossman and Mayra Montero

Dies Irae
Edwidge Danticat

The Battlefields of Shiraz
Rikki Ducornet

Fever Dreams: A Geography of the Mind
Dale Peck

Pan’s Fair Throng
Rick Moody

Four Dark Tales
Joyce Carol Oates

A Dialogue
Bradford Morrow and Richard Powers

Introduction to a Book Titled Blue Sevens, or Protect Yourself From Witchcraft While You Get Rich
Leslie Marmon Silko

The Big-Breasted Pilgrim
Ann Beattie

Please Remain Calm
A.  and M. Homes

Lost and Legendary Aviators
Paul La Farge

Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock
Robert Coover

Our Father
Julia Alvarez

Wake
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Happy Memories
Lydia Davis

In Camera
William H. Gass

An Interview
Joanna Scott and Bradford Morrow

Requiem for a Prodigal Son
Jessica Hagedorn

The Technology of Silence
Ben Marcus

Stalingrad
Christopher Sorrentino

Calling the Hour
Brian Evenson

In the Lightly Moderate Vivid Deep
Diane Williams

Joy of Eating
Matthew Derby

My Grandmother’s Tale of How the Iguana Got Her Wrinkles, or the True Tale of El Dorado
Robert Antoni

Overland
Pamela Ryder

The Obituary
Han Ong

The Moor
Russell Banks

Flight of the Swan
Rosario Ferré

Uitzilintzin, Uitzilintzin: Love Medicine For Sale
Ana Castillo

The Ecstasy of Looking: Six Proofs
David Shields

Finitude: From the Permanent Collection
Jonathan Safran Foer

The Names
Carole Maso