The Fiction Issue 2009
“A Passage to India”
Allen Pearl was the founding editor and publisher of Pearl Files, an exclusive e-newsletter distributed to several thousand media insiders, Golden Circle and average alike.
Peter Owen
For nearly 60 years Peter Owen has been an iconoclast within British publishing, pioneering the publication of some of the most revered and controversial authors of the last half-century.
Reading List
I read the milk container while drinking orange juice out of the bottle, holding the refrigerator door open with my body. A better thing to read about while drinking orange juice would be oranges, or sunshine, or even lemons.
Berkeley Breathed
For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine.
Annie Proulx
I have to admit that when they first hit the store shelves of the world, I skipped over Annie Proulx’s books. Maybe it was the titles—Heartsongs and Other Stories, Postcards. I just figured it for melancholic sepia-toned lady lit.
From “Nocturama”
Brooklynite Skaggs Bernstein (26, self-loathing, recently dumped by his girlfriend, Meghan) has returned home to Vermont to live with his mother.
“Mankind Through the Ages”
Ever since awakening to this strange and forbidding dream called the 21st century, Og had been feeling crucially displaced and lonesome.
“List of Scenes of My Childhood to be Written”
1. Scene describing how my uncle Leon planted a tree in the courtyard of our building.
“Dude, No”
In 11 years as a bounty hunter, Keith had never learned how to pick a lock. He had kicked through his share of doors, but only the hollow cores that guarded the bathrooms and closets his fugitives scurried into, like sick pets.