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Gavin Haynes
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Rhinestone Tiger

I don't get expensive hair cuts anymore. But that isn't through lack of vanity. I once spent two-thirds of my monthly pay packet on a long coat that suited neither winter nor summer.
Jaimie Hodgson
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

William H. Gass

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, William H. Gass played one part in a wide-ranging debate with the novelist John Gardner. It was an examination into the nature of art, theirs and everybody else’s.
Paul Maliszewski
Paul Maliszewski, Frank Di Piazza
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“The Hunter and His Dogs”

Saah Millimono is the chief fiction writer at the Daily Observer, Liberia’s most popular newspaper. Each week, the Observer publishes one of Saah’s stories. They primarily deal with sorcery, witchcraft, deception, and the hardship of life.
Saah Millimono
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“little Red Riding Hood And Blind Boy Willy The Pirate”

When Eric Dando’s first novel, Snail, came out in Australia in 1996, he was the youngest author to ever have been published by Penguin.
Eric Dando
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“The Faecalosaurus”

John Moore’s first brush with notoriety came at a tender age as a drummer for the Jesus and Mary Chain. The story he contributed to this issue is all about fecal matter, and it has made his mother extremely proud.
John Moore
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone

In 1982, childhood friends and über-nerds Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone started selling Brits the first ever Dungeons & Dragons game from a tiny flat in west London.
Andy Capper, Ben Rayner
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“3 Stories”

Robert Walser was underappreciated in his time and is still sort of a loosely kept secret today, passed around by writers and literature nerds like a test of how good one’s taste really is.
Robert Walser
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

David Simon

David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire.
Jesse Pearson, Philip Andrews
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“The Ghost Business”

T. Christopher Gorelick is a mortgage underwriter by day, and by night he’s usually sleeping. He aspires to become a professional writer.
T. Christopher Gorelick
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“Sits the Queen”

Damion Searls is an author and award-winning translator, most recently of Rilke’s The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams, Proust’s On Reading, and the Robert Walser stories in this issue.
Damion Searls
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“Dr. Morton’s Folly”

The term “living legend” gets tossed around without qualification all the time, but we think that the 83-year-old genius who literally wrote the horror classic titled I Am Legend has more than earned it.
Richard Matheson
12.2.09
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