Further Reading
What I Know about My Mother
by Graham Guest
(1) I know she was born on January 19, 1923, and she will die in the Fall of 2008, at eighty- five years old. (2) I know she was originally from New Jersey, maybe near Teaneck. (3) I know there was a black and white photograph taken of her naked on a leopard-skin rug in […]
My Second Favorite Writer Just Died: Elmore Leonard, Philip K. Dick, and the Weird Justice of Genre
by Michael Ennis
Long flights and waiting rooms will never be the same. Elmore Leonard is my second favorite writer, but I didn’t mourn when he died. I counted. The tally of capers and crime sprees has become finite. For years, vacation has been a pretext for devouring Leonard’s novels, seeing how many I could get through while […]
Dec. 7th, 1941
by Stephen Gibson
She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news— she was buying a pack of smokes at the corner (not for herself, she didn’t smoke, for her father). She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news: a girlfriend was in Lenox Hill—some car hit her (only later, my mom learned about Honolulu). She wasn’t sure what […]
