…had no idea where you’d gone.” Ken stood behind her, his head obscured by Wilhelm’s dirty clothes. “Who was reading just now?” asked Wilhelm. This seemed the worse violation, no Manjiro here and a stranger reading his translation. “That would be me,” said Kyuzo, “My, how descriptive it is and how beautiful! I love its pensive quality and the closeness… [Read More]

…Rossenova, and Borislava Velkova Peter Orner, Cedar City, Utah, 1974 Kelly Puig Carroll, The Transmutation of Fernando Pessoa’s Remains, Letter to Arthur Richard Wiley, Reading Faust in Shimoda Ghassan Zeineddine, A Martyr Artist Emily Geminder, Your Village Has Been Bombed Eric McMillan, What Is This You Do Laura Weinert-Kendt, El Director Pedro Ponce, Hallucinogenic Toreador Moniru Ravanipour, Golnâr Marianne Villanueva,… [Read More]

…Expatriate Writer (Portland, Oregon) Kelly Puig Carroll, Letter to Arthur Richard Wiley, Reading Faust in Shimoda Kelly Puig Carroll, The Transmutation of Fernando Pessoa’s Remains Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014) Jennifer Clements, At Your Age Laura Legge, Clutch Micah Dean Hicks, Flight of the Crow Boys John Thornton Williams, Graveyard Andrew Gretes, Hannibal Jennifer Pashley, Strange Animals Molia Dumbleton,… [Read More]

…writers. And these writers, in turn, have been spreading the global good news. Developing writers don’t discover original voices out of nothing, or by just themselves; one truism about becoming a good writer is that it’s necessary to be a good reader first. As that ingenious phenomenon of world literature, the late great Roberto Bolaño, kept saying: “reading is more… [Read More]

…pretty sure. I told him we’d finish the book that night, before bed. Then I toyed with the idea of returning it to the library. An unfinished story probably wouldn’t upset Alex as much as it had upset me at his age. He was easily distractible. Maybe reading him the ending would be more upsetting than not reading it. No,… [Read More]

…another way I might preserve for our children something of Emily’s voice in the emails sent to classmates from high school, college, and graduate school. Actually, it has been good for me as well. Reading through these saved messages has made me realize just how much of her voice I miss. As her health worsened over those four and a… [Read More]

…second thesis. * * * Recently, I participated in a staged reading of “Prop 8,” a play based on the suit by a California lesbian couple and a gay couple contesting the constitutionality of the amendment making the ban against same-sex marriage part of California’s state constitution. The staged reading was for a benefit for Families United, the organization opposing… [Read More]