Cover art is a detail from Jesus in the Olive Grove, by the Master Vyšší Brod (the Master of Hohenfurth), c. 1350. Narodni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic. © Erich Lessing.
Colloquy
Fall 2012
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Subscribe to Conjunctions here. Or to receive notifications of updates to the issue-in-progress, information on the themes of upcoming issues, and announcements when we post full texts from our forthcoming issue, join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.A major portfolio of never-before-published correspondence by the legendary novelist William Gaddis. An arcanum of writings on monsters and monstrosities. Stories and nonfiction about the act of reading, edited by postmodernist Robert Coover. As well as fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from our greatest contemporary masters and the most vital of our emerging voices.
William Gaddis, Selected Letters
Edie Meidav, Dogs of Cuba: The Buddha of the Vedado
Keith Waldrop, Always in Arises
Jonathan Lethem, More Little Tales of the Internet
Ngoc Doan, You Are Country Like Me
Nathaniel Mackey, From From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
John Crowley, Glow Little Glowworm
Cole Swensen, Landscapes on a Train
Ted Mathys, Woodland Pattern
Jedediah Berry, Seven Stories [and hear the audio]
On the Monstrous
China Miéville, Theses on Monsters
Peter Straub, Monstrous, Monstrosity, Monster, and the Little Man Next Door
Theodora Goss, Listening to Krao: What the Freak and Monster Tell Us
James Morrow, A Taxonomy of the Teratoid: Self-Aware Monsters, Oblivious Fiends, and Elusive Demons
Robert Kelly, Two Elegies
Rae Armantrout, Five Poems
Aurelie Sheehan, Luxembourg Gardens
Arnaldo Calveyra, Letters So That Happiness, translated by Elizabeth Zuba
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Immortals Having a Party
Michael Reid Busk, The Connoisseur of Pain
Matt Bell, The Migration
Arthur Sze, The Immediacy of Heat
Peter Gizzi, The Afterlife of Paper
The Alphabet and Its Pretenses, edited by Robert Coover and Bradford Morrow
Lance Olsen, Table of Contents
Shelley Jackson, The Pearls That Were His Eyes
Sarah Tourjee, The Library
Brian Evenson, Literature and the Right Not to Die
Lydia Davis, Reversible Story
Thalia Field and Abigail Lang, Janus at a Chinese Restaurant in Paris
Robert Coover, The Reader
Alexandra Kleeman, Hylomorphosis
Evelyn Hampton, Every Day, an Epic
Rosmarie Waldrop, Otherwise Smooth
William H. Gass, Romancing the Mind
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