Winter 2011

Our best issue ever, including an excerpt from Carol Edgarian’s new novel, Three Stages of Amazement; a great new novella by Ann Packer; Anthony Marra’s latest not-to-be-missed short story; and an iStory by Sherman Alexie.

Plus a Lynn Freed travel essay; Kate Moses commemorating Diane Middlebrook; Tobias Wolff on Paul Bowles; Jayne Anne Phillips on legendary editor Sam Lawrence; Lynn Sharon Schwartz on intimacy and anger; poetry by Narrative newcomer Kate Waldman, and much, much more.


If you buy and read only one collection this year, this is the one.
  • Narrative Library. 332 pages.
  • PDF edition available for download now.