Interview with Ken Kalfus

interviewed by Ryan Boudinot

Issue No. 17 ~ October, 1998

Ryan Boudinot talks with the author of Thirst about his influences, Russia, and the home run record race.

World Records

by Daryl Lease

Issue No. 17 ~ October, 1998

Falling Water

reviewed by Anne Doolittle

Issue No. 17 ~ October, 1998

When Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house suspended over a water fall, he was fulfilling Montaigne’s belief that Our reason has capacity enough to provide the stuff for a hundred other worlds, and then to discover their principles and construction! It needs neither matter nor …

Charity

reviewed by Camille Renshaw

Issue No. 17 ~ October, 1998

Mark Richard populates his latest collection of short stories, Charity, with a desperate set of characters that includes hospitalized orphans, ex cons, mythological figures like Death, and a scorched forest fire fighter. These characters are stripped by adversity, their own stupidity, and addiction, and charity …