Fall 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Their Back Pages
Jonathan Lethem

Realm of Ends
Ann Lauterbach

From The Pesthouse
Jim Crace

Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures
Peter Gizzi

Heaven and Hell
Joanna Scott

How I Lost My Religion
Valerie Martin

Trial of the Satellite or How My Great-great-great-grandfather Almost Lost His Virginity on His Fifteenth Birthday
Robert Antoni

Two Stories
Lydia Davis

All the Modes of Travel
Robert Kelly

Scissors-in-Window
Howard Norman

From Utopia, or, My Pleasure
Edie Meidav

Five Poems
Clark Coolidge

Traffic and Weather
Marcella Durand

Two Poems
C. D. Wright

Crepuscule with Mickey
Christopher Sorrentino

Nowhere
Joyce Carol Oates

Four Poems
Reginald Shepherd

By the Waters of Babylon
Rosmarie Waldrop

From The Woman in White
Elizabeth Robinson

Two Meditations
Peter Dale Scott

A Little History of Modern Music
William H. Gass

From Draining the Sea
Micheline Aharonian Marcom

An Affectionate Companion's Jottings
Translated by Karen Gernant, Translated by Chen Zeping and Can Xue

Tribute to H. D.
Martine Bellen

Isle of the Signatories
Marjorie Welish

A New York Encounter
Edmund White

Two Stories
Rikki Ducornet

From The Ghost In Love
Jonathan Carroll

From The Skylark
Peter Straub

Three Poems
John Ashbery

Shelley in the Navy-Colored Chair
Barbara Guest

Three or Four Poems
Keith Waldrop

Studio Visit
Maureen Howard

Playing Hurt
Lynne Tillman

Story with Advice
Rick Moody

Her Monkey
Julia Elliott

Four Poems
Rae Armantrout

Four Poems
Lyn Hejinian

Two Ligatures
Forrest Gander

From The Perfume of Meat
Jessica Hagedorn

From The Abolition Journal
Brenda Coultas

The Vice Admiral’s Elements
Scott Geiger

Four Stories
Diane Williams

Tear-Down
John Barth

From Scale
Will Self