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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
The Fiction Issue 2009

“A Better World”

Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life, published earlier this year by Knopf. His previous book, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Blake Bailey
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“Fathers and Snakes”

Clancy Martin used to make a living as a jewelry salesman. Now he is a translator of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri.
Clancy Martin
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Modern Fiction Is All Rubbish

Roger Lewis’ 2002 biography of Anthony Burgess polarised critics and his latest book, Seasonal Suicide Notes, is a diary-cum-memoir that made me laugh until I pissed myself on the 185 bus.
Roger Lewis, Bruno Bayley, Michael Otero
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Duncan Fallowell

At 21 Duncan Fallowell was the Spectator’s first rock critic. He then released the anthology Drug Tales in 1979, before promptly giving up drugs to prevent “burning out.”
Bruno Bayley
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Iain Banks

In a publishing world that restricts writers to one genre, Iain Banks has forged a career as a roundly applauded writer of both science fiction and books that don’t have robots and spaceships in them.
James Knight, Murdo McLeod
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“Wild Geese”

Matthias Connor, aka Wolfboy, is a London-based writer who publishes fanzines that he gives to people for free. He has been doing this for more than 20 years.
Matthias Connor
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Pete Dexter

Besides writing hard-edged, blackly funny, and beautifully observed novels, Pete Dexter has spent a lot of time boxing, and he once got beaten so badly by an angry mob in Philadelphia that his back was broken.
Jesse Pearson, Kyle Johnson
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

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.
Steve Lafreniere, Gus Powell
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

“Lost Limbs”

Most people know Arthur Bradford as the creator of How’s Your News?, a documentary series that has been featured on HBO and MTV.
ARTHUR BRADFORD
12.2.09
The Fiction Issue 2009

Wands And Swords, Pentangles And Cups

For W.B. Yeats, the ordinary world would fade away, and he would walk and talk in a spiritual realm that he believed truly existed around and outside the physical world.
Jesse Pearson, Amie Barrodale, Tara Sinn
12.2.09
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