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Winter 2008

  • Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks

    We are pleased to announce the new Narrative website design.

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  • Richard Rodriguez

    I recoil from the certitude that religion can give a person; it’s horrific.

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  • Octavia Randolph

    Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.

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  • Shirley Kaufman

    You can stand on the edge and tremble with fear or risk your life.

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  • Joseph Stroud

    From a pyre on the burning ghat a corpse slowly sits up in the flames.

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  • Marvin Bell

    It’s the roll-up-your-sleeves hour, when you have to make a living.

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  • Viet Thanh Nguyen

    The sight of her belly ring and the smooth, tight canopy of flesh.

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Winter 2008
Editors’ Note

Fiction

  • Robert Olen ButlerLittle Fuckers
  • Viet Thanh NguyenSomeone Else Besides You
  • Octavia RandolphRide
  • Scott SpencerThe Royal Reykjavík Sex Tour

Nonfiction

  • Paula Delgado-KlingChild Soldiers: Homero

Classics

  • W. H. AudenReading

Interviews

  • Richard Rodriguez

Profiles

  • Lacy CrawfordReynolds Price

Readers' Narratives

  • AnonymousAtlantis
  • Enid FuttermanThe Hague/Amsterdam
  • Jane LancellottiMartha’s Vineyard
  • Jim NicholsOwls Head, Maine
  • Nancy ShelbyMadagascar
  • Lori TobiasOregon Coast

Features

  • Jack SmithPortraits of American Poets

Poetry

  • Marvin Bell
  • S. G. Frazier
  • Shirley Kaufman
  • Stephen Kuusisto
  • Joseph Stroud
  • Connie Wanek

First & Second Looks

  • Harry CrewsAn American Family
  • Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks18 Lies and 3 Truths
  • Howard NormanThe Bird Artist
  • Richard RodriguezHunger of Memory
  • Helen SchulmanA Day at the Beach
  • Valerie SteikerThe Leopard Hat
  • Alan ZieglerThe Writing Workshop
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