182
July, 2012
local_library Poetry
Pop Soda Fizz
by Carolyn Keogh
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
If Our Awakenings Had Correlated
by Tim West
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
portrait One on One
Pablo Medina
interviewed by Derek Alger
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
Pablo Medina is a critically acclaimed poet and novelist whose most recent novel, Cubop City Blues, was published earlier this year by Grove Press. At the age of 12, Medina and his family moved from Cuba to New York City.
Bobbie Ann Mason
interviewed by Derek Alger
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
Mason's first short stories were published in The New Yorker, and subsequently included in her first book of fiction, Shiloh & Other Stories (1982), which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. The story collection was also nominated for the American Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
map Macro-Fiction
My Father, Expert on Racism in America
by dadada
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
PS: Why did you send the initial email? Really, why? Not surface why, but really deep why? Why are you unable to take the hint? Why do you keep succumbing to to the urge to show me your politics when you know I find them very disheartening? Consider the deep why before you answer, if you answer.
Speak, Memory!
by Anthony Moore
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
In the night, coming through the monitor at their bedside, is a high-pitched squeal. Paul doesn’t know how, but it doesn’t wake his wife. Everything wakes her up, but not this. He slides out of bed and creeps back to his daughter’s room.
200th St.
by Isaac Davis
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
We pass some cherry-faced white girl in a dirty halter top and mismatching heels. She sticks out her thumb more out of instinct than anything else, but doesn't seem too disappointed when we don't stop. Up north the hoes tend to be a little more discrete when they're working.
Ask and It is Given
by Christina Gombar
Issue No. 182 ~ July, 2012
The call came at midnight, St. Patrick’s. The poignancy unbearable – Damon in the witness box, green tie iridescent under City Hall florescent lights. Barry, awaiting his third try for the bar, was more than adequate as defense.