November 2012
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
You Would've Counted Yourself Lucky
Chad Simpson
Rosebud
Sarah Marshall
Parachute
Chloé Cooper Jones
The Ghost Bird
Ryan Call
with illustrations by Christy Call
EXCERPTS
The Alligators of Abraham
Robert Kloss
Last Call in the City of Bridges
Salvatore Pane
Book of Knut: a novel by Knut Knudson
Halvor Aakhus
POETRY
After the Piano
Elisa Gabbert
Given Air
Happiness Machine
Karen An-hwei Lee
Self-Portrait in Which I Resemble the Man Next to Me
Justin Boening
The Important Book
Michael Bazzett
NON-FICTION
To Look Lifelike in a Photograph One Must First Pose as if Dead
Jess Stoner
Ammonia
Brian Henry
BOOK REVIEWS
Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death by Caryl Pagel
reviewed by Angela Woodward
Notes from Irrelevance by Anselm Berrigan
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon
reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
I am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes
reviewed by Nick Kocz
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
reviewed by Josh Billings