No Near Exit Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine

by Clarke, Jaime; Cotton, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780982631843
• ISBN10: 0982631847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-14
• Publisher: Dzanc Books

Summary

This is an anthology of work published in the first sixteen issues of the literary magazine Post Road, which was founded in 1999. The journal has seen work re-published in Best American Short Storiesand the Pushcart Prize. The editors of the journal asked writers to select favorites from over the years.

Author Biography

Jaime Clarke: Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel We're So Famous (Bloomsbury USA), editor of a John Hughes anthology (S&S), and editor of an upcoming volume on Jonathan Lethem for the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations series.
Mary Cotton: Owner of Newtonville Books.

Table of Contents

Post Road Masthead	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Recommendation: Peter Pan	p. 14
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Fiction: Drive-in	p. 17
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Etcetera: Post Road Questionnaire: George Saunders	p. 21
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Nonfiction: She, Under the Umbrella, Went	p. 27
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Poetry: Non Sum Dignus	p. 36
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Recommendation: Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life	p. 38
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Etcetera: Conversation with Amy Hempel	p. 40
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Fiction: Gold Firebird	p. 48
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Poetry: It's Your Turn to Do the Milking, Father Said	p. 64
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Poetry: Device for Burning Bees	p. 66
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Nonfiction: Hitting Harmony	p. 68
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Etcetera: Document: Hart Crane Guggenheim Application	p. 80
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Poetry: Scarification	p. 86
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Criticism: Matthew Barney versus Donkey Kong	p. 89
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Recommendation: The Rose of Tibet	p. 95
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Poetry: Face for Radio	p. 97
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Poetry: Quick Study	p. 98
Recommendation: A Sport and a Pastime	p. 99
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Poetry: Breathless, My Venom Spent, I Lay Down My Weapons	p. 102
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Poetry: Horoscope	p. 104
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Nonfiction: Waiting Room	p. 105
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Theatre: Mr. Theatre Comes Home Different	p. 113
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Fiction: On the History of a Backgammon Board	p. 117
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Poetry: Track 1: Lush Life	p. 124
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Recommendation: A Boy's Guide to Drinking and Dreaming	p. 126
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Poetry: The Dream in Broad Daylight	p. 131
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Poetry: Elegy for Mumbai	p. 133
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Etcetera: Conversation with Marion Ettlinger	p. 136
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Fiction: The Artist and His Sister Gerti	p. 145
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Recommendation: On Michel de Montaigne	p. 150
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Poetry: In My Dream I've Become a Great Trumpeter	p. 153
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Etcetera: Twenty Questions with Tom Perrotta	p. 155
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Fiction: Sugar	p. 166
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Poetry: What We've Forgotten	p. 173
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Etcetera: Libreto: Tonya and Nancy: the Opera	p. 175
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Poetry: Litany	p. 193
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Etcetera: Twenty Questions with Jonathan Ames	p. 195
Poetry: River in Dusk	p. 207
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Poetry: Shooting Star	p. 209
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Recommendation: On Robert Walser	p. 210
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Etcetera: Twenty Questions with David Mamet	p. 214
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Recommendation: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	p. 218
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Etcetera: Post Road Questionnaire: Jennifer Egan	p. 221
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Poetry: Ard na Mara	p. 225
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Bonus Selections	p. 229
Contributor Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 252
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