Volume 4
An Online Literary Magazine
October 30, 2010

 

Work Song

Fiction

Ivan Doig

 

"Blood is red as fire, and thicker than rain," I did not let up. "Blood percolates secretly all through us, from finger to toe. It outlines our family, whom we speak of as our own flesh and blood..."

Submissions Guidelines Guide

Fiction

Shaul Hendel

 

A Writer's Manifesto: Fed up with the demands of literary magazine editors, Shaul Hendel tells them what he really thinks...

Tree

Fiction

Anjie Seewer Reynolds

 

It’s been twenty-five years since you were that serious tree climber along Pipeline Road, higher than the power lines. Recovering from a bone break now doesn’t sound so exciting...

 

"You can't be around that landscape without it being on your mind. Our lives turned on the weather, in combination with the landscape." Ivan Doig

 

Landscapes of a Western Mind: A Conversation with Ivan Doig

Interview

Nick O’Connell

 

"I don't believe you have to be goosing the reader with outlandish surprises all the time, the notion that fiction has to be hyped up--Ho! Here comes an axe murderer! Huh! Here's a Russian submarine! Jesus! Here's the killer comet from outer space! Life is vivid enough in itself. Look what happens to people as they go through their years...."

Dispatches

Pasta Agonistes

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

Teresa doesn’t mince words. There’s a right way and a wrong way to make these dishes. This is not fusion cuisine. There will be no multicultural mélange of ingredients...

Soupe du Jour

Nonfiction

Meredith Escudier

 

It’ll make a down-to-earth man see grace. It’ll feed the hungry, quench the depleted, restore the downtrodden. And it’ll jam up the mustache of Uncle Armand...

Editor's Note: The Future of Publishing

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

We’re living through one of the biggest transformations in publishing since the printing press...

 

 

 

 

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