FALL 2010

To Our Readers

SPECIAL FEATURE: Raymond Andrews: Dreams, Ifs, and Alls

Stephen Corey and Douglas Carlson Raymond Andrews (1934–91): The County as Heart, History, and Universe (an introduction)

Raymond Andrews Satan Sun (memoir excerpt)

Raymond Andrews From 99 Years and a Dark Day (novel excerpt, with an introduction by Brennan Collins)

Gary Gildner Remembering Raymond Andrews

Raymond Andrews and Gary Gildner “What a Nice Surprise”—A Correspondence

Mary Hood Laughs Last

Philip Lee Williams Becoming Writers Together

Judy Long Raymond Andrews and the Welcome Table

ESSAY

Barry Lopez A Dark Light in the West: Racism and Reconciliation

FICTION

Ellen Wilbur Listening and Speaking

POETRY

Roxane Beth Johnson Emancipation
R. T. Smith Special Collections: Girl with Canebrake Rattlesnake
Leon Stokesbury Watching My Mother Take Her Last Breath
Sydney Lea Unnaming
Robert Wrigley Babel
Jane McKinley Speaking Gillican;   Moss;   At Bubble Pond;   and   Persephone Descending

ART

Benny Andrews Doing America

REVIEWS

Gerald Weales American Theater Watch, 2009–2010

Judith Kitchen Puzzles (on Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty; Terrance Hayes’s Lighthead; Connie Wanek’s On Speaking Terms; and Peggy Shumaker’s Gnawed Bones)

CONTRIBUTORS