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:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

All Cities Burn

by Katharine Coldiron

November 25, 2020

The smell was profound, suffocating, singular. My skin and clothes stank until I washed them; I had to stop at a gas station and wet my shoes under a faucet and scrub them with disintegrating Kleenex because the smell hung so potently in my car. It was dead fish and bird droppings and the bottom edge of a body of water, brought to the light and baked too hot. I once visited a blooming corpse flower at the Huntington and it smelled alive, at least. This was death of a hundred kinds braided together.

Three Poems

by Elizabeth Robinson

November 18, 2020

Where there is no fact, there can be no consolation.

We chose to be plural in the presumed grace of what

is presumed to be moving in the dark.

Nuntle Shtuli

by C. P. Boyko

November 11, 2020

You, Shtuli, went to a school and sang a few songs.
            The children, with skybright eyes, listened rapt, their mouths hanging moistly open.

Strumming my balalaika, I, Shtuli, sang.

Shtuli, you asked Asfalyi, your child, to come to a noisejazz concert with you.
            “I’d rather stay home and read my grimoire tonight, to be honest, Boombi,” Asfalyi said.
            “That’s all right,” you gloomily said. “I’ll go by myself.”