Our cover story is an interview with Colson Whitehead on the occasion of his second novel, John Henry Days, which follows the classic tale of man replaced by machine from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.
July/August 2001
Features
Literary Tastings: A Flight of First Fiction
Profiles of Laura Glen Louis, Jeffrey Frank, Alexandra Styron, David Czuchlewski, and Christine Balint.
Family in the Age of Anxiety: An Interview With Suzanne Berne
A profile of fiction writer Suzanne Berne.
I Always Write of You: A Profile of Sheila Kohler
An interview with fiction writer Sheila Kohler.
Industrial Strength in the Information Age: A Profile of Colson Whitehead
A profile of novelist Colson Whitehead.
News and Trends
News and Trends Update: New Rivers Press Saved
Minneapolis State University in Moorhead rescues New Rivers Press from closure.
The Moth Takes Off
Manhattan-based performance group the Moth promotes the art of storytelling.
Waiting for the Dough
Would-be philanthropist Ravi Desai exposed as a con man with literary aspirations.
Grove Serves Up Naked Lunch
Grove Press reissues William Burroughs's controversial work Naked Lunch as it was orignially published by Paris's Olympia Press in 1959.
The Practical Writer
Boutique Agents: Small Is Still Beautiful
The benefits of being represented by a small literary agency.
Techno Promo: Are you Ready for Digital Marketing?
Learning to market your work online.
The Literary Life
Fiction 21c: The Novel in Stories
The twenty-first-century novel as a narrative of linked stories.