Featuring a portfolio of fiction that explores gothic comedy.
Dark Laughter
Spring 2001
Edited by Bradford Morrow, Guest Edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
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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
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