Fall 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Guest Editor’s Note
Howard Norman

[“The ten years after a writer’s death …”]
Rick Moody

Zed Lake
Steve Erickson

Seeing
Martine Bellen

[“I remember when we met Gaddis …”]
Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster

The Navigators
Reginald Shepherd

[“To begin with, here are two things …”]
David Grubbs

The Pound Project
Jerome Rothenberg

[“William Gaddis’s project was noble and exemplary …”]
Russell Banks

Bed Brought out of Scotland
Susan Howe

[“I’ve always been fascinated by Gaddis …”]
Susan Cheever

Being a Man
Siri Hustvedt

[“On the occasion of his posthumous publications …”]
Ben Marcus

[“He was elegant, urbane, unassuming …”]
Mary Caponegro

From The Head Cornerstone
Madison Smartt Bell

[“The four cardinal points …”]
Steven Moore

Four Poems
Michael Palmer

Four Essays
Eliot Weinberger

[“When Rick Moody suggested …”]
Sven Birkerts

De Kooning
William Corbett

[“It was the grad-school summer of ’60 …”]
Robert Coover

[“I remember the bookstore, long gone now …”]
Don DeLillo

Three Poems
Reetika Vazirani

[“Gaddis. Even when, during our dozen or so conversations …”]
Bradford Morrow

Two Faces
Clarence Major

To the Shadow
W. S. Merwin

[“To tell the truth is to tell a lie …”]
Joanna Scott

From Streams of Water
Merle Collins

[“Justice?–You get justice …”]
Rodrigo Fresán

The Nomadic Text: Exile and Translation, An Interview
Sean Cotter and Norman Manea

[“Nearly two decades ago …”]
Cynthia Ozick

[“Money. The first word of J R …”]
Maureen Howard

From The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

[“How long did The Recognitions …”]
Jonathan Lethem

Letters to Peter
Fanny Howe

[“It was this impulse to extend …”]
Edie Meidav

Night Music
Rebecca Seiferle

[“A habit, no more than his acute ear …”]
Joseph McElroy

Spirit Birds
Stanley Plumly

[“I’m not sure when I came across …”]
Stewart O&rsquo and Nan

Guests of Space (II)
Anselm Hollo

The Passion of Anne Frank
Carole Maso

[“As Lou Harrison says …”]
Carter Scholz

The Execution of Fegelein
Paul West

[“Nearly twenty years ago …”]
David Shields

[“I’ve always been partial …”]
Christopher Sorrentino

The Ominous Philologist
Rikki Ducornet

[“I can’t be the only one …”]
Joseph Tabbi

(Mis)laid
Bradford Morrow

Five Poems
James Tate

[“‘Our immortality is made of memories and lies …’”]
William H. Gass

Untitled
Renee Gladman

The Reincarnate
Michael Bergstein

The Messenger
David Antin

 Duality
Hayden Carruth

Arrow
Elizabeth Robinson

The Pink Dress
Honor Moore

The Art of Thinking
Ron Padgett

Five Poems
Jackson Mac Low

Two Poems
Rae Armantrout

‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’
Leslie Scalapino

How They Took My Body Apart and Made Another Me
Robert Kelly

Two Stories
Brian Evenson

Two Poems
Catherine Imbriglio

I Remember Her as a Study in Red
Julie Agoos

Birthday Call
Mark Rudman

Three Poems
Elizabeth Arnold

Scotch and an Orange
Donald Berger

Trees of the Epistolary Life
Howard Norman and Jake Berthot