Contributors

Russell Banks

Contributor History

Bunting, Conjunctions:8
The Moor, Conjunctions:34
[“William Gaddis’s project was noble and exemplary …”], Conjunctions:41
The Sweet Hereafter, Multimedia 12-06-2003 (mp3, 00:03:56)
From The Reserve, Online 12-13-2007
A Permanent Member of the Family, Conjunctions:61
Last Days Feeding Frenzy, Conjunctions:64

Biography

Russell Banks is the author of many novels, including Lost Memory of Skin, and six fiction collections, including A Permanent Member of the Family (both Ecco), the title story of which was first published in Conjunctions:61, A Menagerie (Fall 2013). “Last Days of Feeding Frenzy” is ® 2015 Russell Banks.

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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Laura Kolbe

March 31, 2020

in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back

Cut

by Paul Lisicky

March 17, 2020

1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.

The One Who Takes Your Name

by David Bajo

March 10, 2020

Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.