Edited by Bradford Morrow

Homero Aridjis, Two Poems

Valerie Martin, His Blue Period

Michael Coffey, from Imagisme

William H. Gass, Charity

Noy Holland, Rooster Pollard Cricket Goose

Erica Hunt, (Parabola)

Sally Keith, Beacon Line

Mark McMorris, Theoretical Man

Sandra Meek, Three Poems

Elizabeth Robinson, Three Dragons

Sarah Rothenberg, You Are Leaving the Present Now: Twelve Variations on the Theme of Memory
Click here to go to Audio Vault to hear Sarah Rothenberg perform on the piano in Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

William T. Vollmann, Defense of Ground

Can Xue, Mosquitos and Folk Songs


Dark Laughter: A Portfolio of Black Comedy Edited by Bradford Morrow and Jonathan Safran Foer

Editors' Note

Jonathan Ames, Home, Jeeves!

Rebecca Brown, The Smokers

Tova Reich, Managed Care

Elisabeth Cohen, Kids Who Died at My High School This Year

Robert Coover, Punch

Rikki Ducornet, Grilled Pigeon and Counterpane Wars

Paul Maliszewski, Instructions for Optimum Growth

Ben Marcus, The Launch

Joyce Carol Oates, 21 Epiphanies on the Great Egg

George Saunders, The Big Durn Flood

Dale Peck, Fruit Salad

Gilbert Sorrentino, Gorgias

Alexander Theroux, Queen Gloriana's Revenge

Lynne Tillman, Ten TV Tales

Paul West, The Grand Illusion

Diane Williams, The Beginning of the World Feeling Ought to be Exhilirating

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