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“America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America.”
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David Mitchell on the art of fiction: “the universe needs to contrive circumstances to stop me writing.”

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Memoir by Wenguang Huang and Victor LaValle, and a dispatch from the North Atlantic by Julia Whitty.

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BENJAMIN PERCY, “ME VS. ANIMALS”

Click here to listen to Benjamin Percy read his memoir from the Winter 2009 issue.

  FROM THE SPRING ISSUE

Eve on Her Deathbed
Linda Pastan

In the end we are no more than our own stories:
mine a few brief passages in the Book,
no further trace of plot or dialogue.
But I once had a lover no one noticed
as he slipped through the pages, through
the lists of those begotten and begetting.
Does he remember our faltering younger selves,
the pleasures we took while Adam,
a good bureaucrat, busied himself
with naming things, even after Eden?
What scraps will our children remember of us
to whom our story is simple
and they themselves the heroes of it?



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