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FICTION

TIM MIZELLE
Framing Alice | 9

WAYNE WILSON
An Oedipus of Vapor | 17

CHRISTOPHER O’STEEN
What She Does | 35

DAVID SCHUMAN
Highway | 47

POETRY

HA JIN
Homework | 13
Two Newspaper Men | 14

Paul Lake
Of Origins | 16

BURTON RAFFEL
This Aging Head | 30

JACKSON WHEELER
My Mother’s Father | 31

KATHERINE E. YOUNG
June Snow | 32
No Dog in This Fight | 33

LUCAS CARPENTER
At Hadrian’s Wall | 43

JAMES MAGORIAN
Backcountry | 45

CAROL CARPENTER
Aunt Amaryllis in the Dead of Winter | 54
Heart Murmur | 56

MEMOIR

LEWIS NORDAN
Up, Up, and Away | 58

INTERVIEW

GEORGE HOVIS
An Interview with Fred Chappell | 67

REVIEWS

SCOTT ROMAINE
Inventing Southern Literature by Michael Kreyling | 80

DAVID A. DAVIS
Troubled Lovers in History by Albert Goldbarth | 83

Brian Carpenter | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Stephen Brower

FICTION CO-EDITORS

George Hovis & Chad Trevitte

POETRY EDITOR

Christopher Windolph

FICTION STAFF

Melissa Bostrom, Jonathan D’Amore, Gretchen Fricke, Rich Gruss, Tom Horan, Kim Jastremski, Kristen Jastremski, Jessica Kem, Jennifer Lockard, Sarah Mazer, Chris McKenna, Laura Lynn Mielke, Sarah Reuning, Jessie Tucker, Elizabeth Wright

POETRY STAFF

Al Benthall, David Davis, Amy Dye, Kristen Gravitte, Andrew Harvey, Tessa Joseph, Charlotte Pence, Jim Ryan, Lindsey Smith, Todd Verdun

LAYOUT EDITOR

Rebecca Hendren

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Sarah George-Waterfield
Lee Norton

EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS

Michelle Miller & Robert West

ILLUSTRATOR

John Westmark