Winter 2006

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  Here, Min Jin reads from her novel at Narrative Night, New York City.

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  Her knees seemed about to give way, and he quickly grabbed her elbow.

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  All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

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  Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.

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  For a month after 9/11 Bella wept through all her appointments.

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  All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

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  He never stopped reminding me that I was born in Harmony, Georgia.

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Editors’ Note

Fiction

• Mermer BlakesleeLeenie
• Wesley BrownWomen from Mars
• Cai EmmonsThe Stylist
• Tom GrimesRedemption Song, Part One
• Padgett PowellThree Short Pieces
• Robin TroyLiberty Lanes

Nonfiction

• Rick BassShy

Narrative Outloud

• Pia Z. EhrhardtPia Outloud
• Tom JenksIntroduction to Narrative Reading
• Min Jin LeeFree Food for Millionaires

Narrative Nights

• New York City

Readers' Narratives

• Robert BeattySeaside Cliffs
  Near Big Sur, California
• Caroline LedeboerMr. Song’s House, Cedar Falls, Iowa
• Tara W. LumpkinIn the House of a Sangoma,
  Katatura, Namibia
• Amy PetersChair Nine, Telluride, Colorado
• Paula SpeckThe Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico City
• Mark YakichThe Twelfth Apostle,
  Leuven, Belgium

Classics

• Frank ConroyGossip

First & Second Looks

• William BentonMadly
• Lawrence BuellThe American Transcendentalists
• Zona GaleMiss Lulu Bett
  and Selected Stories
• Rachel IngallsTimes Like These
• William MaxwellTime Will Darken It
• Tobias WolffThe Barracks Thief