Beaufort’s Scale

by Barbara Daniels

Originally published on May 1, 2001

Closing the Gap

by Brad Bryant

Originally published on May 1, 2001

A spider lives in a crack in my bedroom wall. The crack is highlighted by white smears where ineffectual insect spray has cleaned away the yellow smoke stains. I see the spider most mornings. It goes to bed as I rise. A huntsman that hunts by night.
Nothing lives in the cracks that are forming [...]

Piano

by Cindy Nichols

Originally published on May 1, 2001

There’s an earlier place I remember very well.  One with stairs.
Music while I drifted up alone
to sleep or look out,
the same while I stumbled back down to the world.
Or, days, my mother dusting, swabbed
and banged the keys–
She otherwise never
got near it.  Never sang.  Maybe the way
she’d sort of moan out the word Oklahoma,
where she’d lived [...]

Lost Anecdote From the Pages of Vasari

by Garrett Brown

Originally published on May 1, 2001

Spring cleaning in Baltimore always involved
a yellow bucket sloshing with soapy water
and a rag recognized as the tattered remains
of my father’s bowling shirt, circa 1973.
I would be sent to the front of the house
on the first warm day of shorts
and no socks to wipe the marble steps.
It was also springtime, I would [...]

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

reviewed by Rachel Sage

Originally published on May 1, 2001

Reading Arts of the Possible will convince you (if you weren’t
already convinced) that Adrienne Rich is the kind of thinker who has
long term relationships with her ideas.  Written [...]

Mary and O’Neil

reviewed by Ricco Siasoco

Originally published on May 1, 2001

In his first collection of fiction, Justin Cronin proves himself a
deft chronicler of everyday American life. The eight connected stories
in Mary and O’Neil find their nexus in the [...]

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

reviewed by neal lipschutz

Originally published on May 1, 2001

The easy thing to say about this sometimes gut-wrenching trip through
the underside of the nation’s fast-food industry is that once you’re
done you’ll think twice before strolling into McDonald’s [...]

Interview with Rene Steinke

interviewed by Derek Alger

Originally published on May 1, 2001

Rene Steinke’s first novel, The Fires, was published by William Morrow
in 1999, and the paperback version was published last year by
HarperPerrenial. The novel was selected in 1999 by [...]

[L. intrinsecus

by Ted Warnell

Originally published on May 1, 2001

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