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Nelson Algren
“I once heard two junkies arguing about my book, and finally one guy says, “If he really knew what he was talking about, he couldn't write the book, he'd be out in the can.”
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Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction.

An interview with Mary Karr: “In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.”

Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.

A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.

New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.

Plus Benjamin Percy's encounters with the animal world; a folio of photographs by Massimo Vitali; winter poetry by Marianne Boruch, Cathy Park Hong, Dorothea Tanning; and more.

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BENJAMIN PERCY, “ME VS. ANIMALS”

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  FROM THE NEW ISSUE

The Art of Memoir No. 1
Mary Karr

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.



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