Unsaid Issue 2
In memory of Joan Scott (1926-2005)
A Note Regarding the Cover: Mountain Meadow's Mysteries or the Evening Redness in the West (Interchange #7), 2004, by Lane Twitchell Cut paper and acrylic polymers on plexi mounted to acrylic panel 72" x 72" (182.9 cm x 182.9 cm) Private collection, courtesy Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
David McLendon, Editor
Daniel Richardson, Designer
Greg Ames
Greg Ames lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in
The Best American Nonrequired Reading,
Open City and
McSweeney's. His first novel,
Buffalo Lockjaw, will be published by Hyperion in April 2009. Visit
www.gregames.com for more information.
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Jenny Boully
Jenny Boully's The Body was published in 2002 by Slope Editions. It is currently being translated for publication in Iran. Her chapbook, of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon, is forthcoming in April from the Coconut Chapbook Series. She has a new manuscript, The Book of Beginnings & Endings & Other Such Things, and is putting finishing touches on a memoir. She has just completed coursework in the Ph.D. program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she has studied at Hollins Univeristy and the University of Notre Dame.
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Will Eno
Will Eno is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. His play
THOM PAIN(based on nothing) opened in New York in January 2005, at the DR 2 Theatre. It ran for 378 performances and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His work has been produced in London, Brazil, and New York. He is currently at Princeton University, as a Hodder Fellow. His plays are published by Oberon Books, in London, and by TCG, in the United States.
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Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently
The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and
The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean Fremon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including each issue of
Unsaid.
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Noy Holland
Noy Holland lives with her husband and two children in the gentle hills of Massachusetts. Her first collection of stories,
The Spectacle of the Body, was published by Knopf.
What Begins with Bird (stories) was brought out recently by Fiction Collective Two.
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David Hollander
David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E., and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in
Swink,
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,
The Black Warrior Review,
Failbetter,
The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. The work appearing here is excerpted from his novel-in-progress,
The Life to Come. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Joanna Howard
Joanna Howard has stories in
Conjunctions,
The Chicago Review,
Quarterly West,
Unsaid,
American Letters and Commentary,
Western Humanities Review,
Salt Hill,
Fourteen Hills,
Tarpaulin Sky,
Harp & Altar,
Snowvigate, and
Double Room. Two recent stories were included in the anthologies
P P/F F: An Anthology and
New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. She is also the author of a chapbook,
In the Colorless Round, with illustrations by the novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, from Noemi Press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island an teaches at Brown University.
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Michael Kimball
Michael Kimball has published two novels,
The Way the Family Got Away (which has been translated into six languages) and
How Much of Us There Was (Fourth Estate, 2005). He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including, mostly recently,
Open City,
Prairie Schooner, and
Sleeping Fish. He lives in Baltimore with his wife.
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Bear Kirkpatrick
Bear Kirkpatrick lives in Maine. "June's Flowers" is from his work in progress,
The Harvester.
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Brian Kubarycz
Brian Kubarycz writes and paints in Salt Lake City. He teaches literature at the University of Utah.
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Parchment COMING SOON!!! Until then read it in the print version.
Emily Lodish
Emily Lodish is a recent Yale graduate who works at The Nation magazine. She is also a freelance writer, and has been published in The Nation and NY Arts Magazine. Emily lives in Brooklyn.
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Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez teaches an experimental writing workshop at The New School. He lives with his wife, Heather, and has appeared in many literary journals. This is his second appearance in
Unsaid.
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Paul Maliszewski
Paul Maliszewski's writing has appeared recently in
Barrelhouse and
The Baffler.
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Peter Markus
Peter Markus is the author of
Good, Brother,
The Moon is a Lighthouse, and
The Singing Fish. A novel,
Bob, or Man on Boat, is coming out in 2008 from Dzanc Books.
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Lindsey Noelle Nichols
Lindsey Noelle Nichols is a library student in Boston. As a child, she traveled the globe in a bubble of her own creation and thought about stuff. Her fiction blog is
http://nightvisionicebox.blogspot.com.
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Russell Persson
Russell Persson lives in Biddeford, Maine.
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Rick Poinsett
Rick Poinsett about "The Winning Cruelty of Ray Gish": 'Let me say that Ray's cruelty preceded this poem and will surely outlive it. But there is no 'Ray Gish,' of course. I mean, how could there be? How could we hope that there be—in Blake's terms—such an 'Animate Wither' moving among us? This world is a little thin on the substance that allows for such a man, a man of remote superiority, ponderous gifts, conflicts of every kind. . . . In this sense, maybe 'Ray Gish' is merely a pseudonym for 'David McLendon,' my Thank You, my thumbnail homage to the godhead behind this magazine."
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Ten Poems from Poems Anticipating Asimo COMING SOON!!! Until then read it in the print version.
Rem Reynolds
Rem Reynolds lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
The Literary Review and
The Minus Times.
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Rick Rofihe
Rick Rofihe is the author of the short-story collection
Father Must: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as
The New Yorker,
The New York Times,
Open City,
Epiphany,
Grand Street, and the
Village Voice. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award. He has taught at Columbia University and the Writer's Voice of the West Side Y. Rick holds a B.A. from Dalhousie University.
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Pamela Ryder
Pamela Ryder's stories have appeared in many literary journals. "Wanderlust" is part of a collection about the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
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M Sarki
M Sarki has written three books of poetry with the titles
Zimble Zamble Zumble,
Little War Machine and
Mewlhouse. The books may be purchased at
rogueliterarysociety.com, or where other good books are sold.
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Eighteen Poems COMING SOON!!! Until then read it in the print version.
Jason Schwartz
Jason Schwartz is the author of
A German Picturesque. He directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. His work in this and previous issues of
Unsaid is from a highly anticipated work in progress.
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Justin Shatraw
Justin Shatraw's work can also be found in
The Cowboy Issue. He lives in New York City.
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Jocelyn Slovak
Jocelyn Slovak teaches 12th-grade English at the Academy of Urban Planning, a small Brooklyn public high school committed to the promotion of social justice in the urban community. Besides the poems published in this issue of
Unsaid, her recent writings include critical articles on the life and work of Virginia Woolf. She is currently writing a memoir.
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Richard St. Germain
Richard St. Germain lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His pages here and from the last issue of
Unsaid are from a recently completed novella,
Loveseat.
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