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

The Dream Tongue

by Jennifer Adams

January 14, 2020

We found the laptop in Cressey’s round room. It was black, thin, light as wood, and belonged to Dr. Marcus, the man who came on to me once, the one who smokes dope in the eaves, the philologist or psychologist. I can’t get these “terms” straight in my head anymore, what with these drugs they feed us. The afternoon pills, especially.

Three Poems

by Alexandria Peary

January 7, 2020

We turn the floodlights on the actors, extras in one of the world’s great short stories, surprising them mid-escapade, nocturnal animals caught playing dress up with our clothing, our fanciest possessions. Pearl choker on a possum, suit jacket on a raccoon. A skunk, a lynx, two tubby foxes moonlighting as twin nephews or as young men dating our daughters.

L’altro figlio

by Fortunato Salazar

December 17, 2019

Though we mocked Dad mercilessly, our mocking was such as to lead him on convincingly. Dad! There is hope for you if, say, you are struck by lightning. So often did he sulk out on the balcony that he did seem to be inviting a strike. Or a stumble.

A Conjunctions Launch Reading with Joyce Carol Oates, Quincy Troupe, Rob Nixon, and Hilary Leichter

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar Celebrates the New Earth Elegies Issue

Thursday, January 30, 2020

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar, 126 Crosby St., New York, NY 10012