Conjunctions: 58 / Riveted: The Obsession Issue

Spring 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Clear Over Target, the Whole Town in Flames
Fiona Maazel

The Woman Who Married a Cloud
Jonathan Carroll

Two Poems
Martine Bellen

Philosophers
Sigrid Nunez

The Cursed
Christopher Sorrentino

On Repetition
Elizabeth Robinson

I Get Her Up in Daylight
Andrew Mossin

The Last Film of Alan Smithee
Gabriel Blackwell

Proposals for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned
Michael Sheehan

For Tamara
Sarah Lang

The Flatbed
Joyce Carol Oates

That Obscure Object of Desire
Ryan Ruby

I Would Never Do These Things
Stephen O’Connor

Children Love Color
Lyn Hejinian

The End of the World
Julia Elliott

Eight Poems
Robert Fernandez

Counting Sheep
Brian Conn

Parts List Counted in Ogham
Karen Donovan

Some Remarks on Teeth
Adam Weinstein

Story, Story!
Chinelo Okparanta

Foreign Correspondent
Joanna Howard

Misadventure
Nicholas Grider

Speck of Light
Bernadette Esposito

Craquelure
Ryan Flaherty

The Thief
Karen Lepri

The Healing Machine
Shena McAuliffe

Jo’s Murder Game
Urs Allemann and Translated by Patrick Greaney

Description

Conjunctions: 58, Riveted: The Obsession Issue

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Cover art is Lowtide, from the “Sentinels” series of the Architect’s Brother collection by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Image © 2003 Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison; all rights reserved by the artists.

Mesmerists and hoarders. Conspiracy theorists and martyrs. Fetishists and addicts. Saints and sinners. Riveted explores the idea of obsession, the world of fixation, the idée fixe.