299.3 Summer Issue 2014
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This is the annual fiction issue from 2014. In this issue, we are celebrating Hispanic American Heritage Month by publishing Antonio Ochoa, Ralph Tejeda Wilson, and J. L. Torres, as well as reviewing books by three Hispanic American poets.
ART
Cover Summer Fiction [digital] • Beth Hobbs
14 Guiding Spirit [oil and digital] • Ethan Bifano
18 Untitled [ink] • Catherine Byun
22 White Stones [digital] • Jeannie Phan
25 Untitled [ink and digital] • Clary Rodery
30 Lillian’s Pearls [ink and digital] • Jared Rogness
32 Trudging Through Winter [graphite, ink and digital] • John F. Malta
FICTION
14 Me and Betty White • Jeanne Sirotkin
18 Linkage • Tim Poland
22 Gargoyls • Jennifer Kircher Carr
25 Personal Testimony of Billy Wayne Simmons 50 Years After Appearing Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities • Raymond Cothern
30 Lillian’s Pearls • Antara Brewer
32 White Sky Rats • Luke Rolfes
NONFICTION
3 Spinsters • Ann Bauleke
12 Prologue • Ian Schimmel
39 Crossroads • Richard Schmitt
48 Our Language, Ourselves [Past Perfect] • Katy D’Angelo
POETRY
11 Animal • Kay Cosgrove
11 My Fantasy Twin in an Infinite Multiverse • Colette Inez
11 Abuelo and the Kamikaze Angels • J. L. Torres
21 What Long Ellipsis • Sean Thomas Dougherty
23 What Falls from Trucks, from the Lips of Saviors • Martha Silano
24 From El Toro de Hiroshima / Running Away from that Boy Theseus • Antonio Ochoa / trans. Victoria Livingstone
24 Knives • Ralph Tejeda Wilson
29 Architecture of the Veil • Charlotte Pence
31 Behind the Beauty Strip • William Kelley Woolfitt
31 Ehrfurcht • Michael Metivier
37 String Quartet in F, Op. 41, No. 2 • Bruce Whiteman
38 All of Us in a Room • Dave Nielsen
38 Kindness • Jim Johnstone
38 What the Internet Isn’t • Maggie MK Hess
43 Chorus Girl • Angela M. Brommel
43 Nightjar • James Scruton
43 The Allure of Churches • Chad Davidson
REVIEWS
44 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
45 Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • Vince Gotera
46 Paeans: Brief Book Reviews • Anne Drolet
MISCELLANY
2 From the Editors • NAR Staffers Out in the World
47 Contributors
