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Spring 2003
No. 165: Spring 2003 $15 | Order Now
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An interview with Jorie Graham on the Art of Poetry.

“Quite the most enchanting maniac I’ve met”: A visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor.

William T. Vollmann on the Siege of Stalingrad.

Stories by John Griesemer, Miranda July, and Josip Novakovich. Poems by A. R. Ammons, Billy Collins, Dana Goodyear, and Bruce Smith.


Summer 2003
No. 166: Summer 2003 Sold Out
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Jonathan Lethem describes his writing process: “I’m a tortoise, waking each day to plod out my page or two.”

An oral history of Gabriel García Márquez.

A novella by Michael Chabon, the 2004 Aga Khan Prize winner. Stories by Peter Orner and James Salter. Poems by Norma Jenckes and Natasha Saje.


Fall 2003
No. 167: Fall 2003 $25 | Order Now
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50th Anniversary

Jim Crace weighs the merits—and demerits—of research: “Facts don’t help. If you’re not a persuasive talker at a party, no one’s going to believe you, even if everything you say is true . . .”

PORTFOLIO: From the files of Gerard Malanga. After working with Warhol in 1969, Malanga began carrying his Nikon wherever he went . . .

A story by Yiyun Li, the 2004 Plimpton Prize winner. Poems by Tom Disch, Joyce Carol Oates, and Brenda Shaughnessy.


Winter 2003
No. 168: Winter 2003 Sold Out
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Michael Frayn on flops: “I realized that by their very nature flops don’t last for very long, and by their very nature successes do. So as time goes by it’s the successes that people tend to remember.”

Andrea Barrett explains how new stories begin: “My early drafts are staggeringly bad. I’m not being falsely modest here, it’s just the way I work, and I’ve had to accept this about myself.”

Stories by Andrea Barrett and Rick Bass. A play by William Kennedy. Poems by Isobel Dixon and William Olsen.


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