Envoy: Winning
Mamma Jean’s home is an apartment in the city. The apartment is in a high rise of rental condominiums overlooking the beach, two blocks from a retirement community. She bought it when her husband died,...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Henry Miller
The first edition of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer comes with a small notice lining the bottom of the cover: “Not to be imported into Great Britain or U.S.A.” A national uproar and legal ban were not...
View ArticleOrigin: Jesse Nee-Vogelman
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504. Image courtesy of www.metmuseum.org In our second installation of Origin supplements, Jesse Nee-Vogelman reads and discusses an excerpt from his short story “Pieces...
View ArticleOrigin: Katherine Damm
Vivian Maier, Self Portrait, 1959. Image courtesy of www.vivianmaier.com In our third installation of Origin supplements, Katherine Damm reads and discusses her short story “The Tour.” Look for the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Djuna Barnes
“Reading Djuna Barnes is like reading a foreign language, which you understand,” said Marianne Moore about her friend and contemporary near the end of Barnes’s career. “The Perfect Murder,” printed by...
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