Issue Nine: Summer 2006

What Lips, A Triple Crown of Sonnets from

Patricia Brody, Moira Egan, Amy Lemmon, Emily Lloyd, Tatyana Mishel, Marilyn Taylor, and Kathrine Varnes

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Kathryn Pope interviews Brad Kessler, author of Birds in Fall

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An excerpt from Birds in Fall, a novel by Brad Kessler

Kessler's knowledge of the natural world, music, and myth enriches every page of this hauntingly beautiful and moving novel about solitude, love, losing your way, and finding something like home.

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Levkás, an excerpt from The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a novel by Ruth Francisco

An intimate portrait? Or salacious exploitation?

Released amid the furor over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Ruth Francisco’s fictional memoir, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has turned into a brain tease for fiction and nonfiction readers alike.

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An excerpt from There Will Never Be Another You, a novel by Carolyn See

Foreboding and all too plausible, There Will Never Be Another You is a cautionary novel of family and society, where a naïve past is replaced by a menacing future in which distinguishing between reality and imagination proves to be more challenging than ever.

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Nothing But the Truth, a story by Paul Marks

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baseball cards, a story by Alex Tavares

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Lunch, a story by Naomi Benaron

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Sick: A Totally True Story by Debby Dodds

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Luna Loca, a story by Annette DeNoyer

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Wednesdays, a story by Heather Dewar