April 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Six Stories from Lunar Savings Time
Alex Epstein
translated from the Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay
Three Stories from Tea Cup Fortune Telling
Kathryn Scanlan
Bad Kids
Alex Samets
One Hand Guides the Other
Trent England
NOVEL EXCERPTS
Netsuke
Rikki Ducornet
The Bee-Loud Glade
Steve Himmer
POETRY
Three Subway Poems from What Travels
Joseph O. Legaspi
Closet High School Girlfriend
Brent Goodman
Tail
Jenny Johnson
In the Months After His Death You Move Through Moments Like a Mountain
Brian Simoneau
NON-FICTION
State of Wonder: Upon Listening Again to Glenn Gould's Interpretation of Bach's "Prelude No. 1 in C Major"
Christopher Bundy
BOOK REVIEWS
There is No Year by Blake Butler
reviewed by David Cotrone
The Visiting Suit by Xiaoda Xiao
reviewed by Gro Flatebo
The Correspondence Artist by Barbara Browning
reviewed by Matt Dube
You'd Be a Stranger, Too by Weston Cutter
reviewed by Nick Kocz
Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe
reviewed by Anna Clark
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES