Summer 2013 | Issue 2

Featured



“They believed in a separatist nation of underdogs, all for the unreasonable purposes of art, which is human folly, which is monasticism, which is free jazz; they came to Marfa to defend the turkeys of Marfa, even should they need to lay down their own lives to do so.”

The Turkeys of Marfa

      Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title. He has been regarded as a highly ambitious writer and one of the most original literary voices of his generation. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike, and in 1999 The New Yorker chose him as one of America’s most talented young writers, listing him on its “20 Writers for the 21st Century” list.

Rick Moody

Selected Fiction



“Larry sits quietly on the subway ride home from Doctor Patt’s. He is usually so jovial that it embarrasses me. I can never forget that there are other people all around us, watching us, whereas he feels completely at home talking as loudly as possible.”

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Marble Head
Bridgette Shade

“Maybe everything she has ever thought or taught is incorrect. Maybe nothing matters but money and good looks. Maybe she should watch more television. Tune into HGTV, a land where everyone owns a home on a clean street, and, like her, is perpetually fixated on remodeling her life, secretly wondering if it wouldn’t be easier to rebuild.”

Marble Head

Writers


Turning
R.T. Smith

“It’s hard on potters, though, all that working dirt – wedge and knead, then raising the loaf to a vessel, and we’ve got to lift and tote, not free even from the digging out ponds and creeks for the raw clay like so many ditch cutters.”

Turning by Rod Smith

      R. T. Smith is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of twelve poetry collections and a collection of short fiction, Smith is the editor of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal published by Washington and Lee University. His poetry and stories are identified with Southern literature and have been published in magazines and literary journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and The Kenyon Review. Smith’s writings have won the Pushcart Prize, Library of Virginia Poetry Prize and the Maurice English Poetry Award. Two of his poetry collections have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Rod Smith