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:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Four Poems

by F. Daniel Rzicznek

June 30, 2020

The bones and crosses left out for him an emerald

Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face

All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing

New Sisters

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

by Selena Anderson

June 29, 2020

Quisa had fallen into the habit of disappointing herself, and then disappointing herself a little more, with the words she let slip from her mouth. She kept talking to people in this hungry, intimate way, as if they too had spent the time of their lives in their heads and read the warning labels too closely and worried irrationally about their lymph nodes. Accidental confessions are what these amounted to.

Thrown

by Roy Kesey

June 23, 2020

Four cops come. Both parents are arrested, D&D. The children—William, six, and Stephanie, three—are taken by CPS.

The neighborhood will be quiet for almost two weeks.