August 2009
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Maintenance Window
Chris Bachelder
I'm Wide
Gordon Lish
Excerpt from The Big Book of Forgotten Lunatics, Volume 1
Kevin Wilson
Two Stories
Kim Chinquee
Mongolia, New York, Prague, Krakow
Matthew Salesses
NOVEL EXCERPT
Ray of the Star
Laird Hunt
POETRY
from NANOPEDIA: THE SMALLEST AMERICAN REFERENCE
Charles Jensen
Two Poems
Christina Kallery
Five Poems
Oliver de la Paz
NON-FICTION
Twisting the Story Into Its Original Twisted Form
David McLendon
Assembloir: That Which Is True of Others Is True of Me
Ander Monson
BOOK REVIEWS
Fugue State by Brian Evenson
Ryan Call
You: or The Invention of Memory by Jonathan Baumbach
Anna Clark
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz
John Madera
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
Dawn Raffel