December 2010
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Landolfi's Skin
Brian Kubarycz
Field Reports
by Susan McCarty
What the Fuck is an Electrolyte?
Mike Young
The Way of the Rider
Jarrett Haley
NOVEL EXCERPTS
Zone
Mathias Énard
The Cosmopolitans
Nadia Kalman
Haywire
Thaddeus Rutkowski
POETRY
Stargazing
Keith Montesano
Oración por Tim Cook
Justin Bigos
Implied Color
Bruce Cohen
The Traveling Line
Portrait of a Pig as a Bird
Jenny George
NON-FICTION
The Monkey House
Rachel Yoder
BOOK REVIEWS
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
reviewed by Nick Kocz
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin
reviewed by Charles Holdefer
Best European Fiction 2011 edited by Aleksandar Hemon
reviewed by Anna Clark
Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts and Wolf Face by Matt Hart
reviewed by Jeremy Benson
Bring Down the Little Birds by Carmen Giménez Smith
reviewed by Jena Salon
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES