The Fall 2014 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Percival Everett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Percival Everett (Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Everett writes in his introduction, the stories "range from so-called mimetic to so-called meta. I do not like such labels and I hope to undermine their use by putting these fine works together." Authors experiment with everything from extensive footnotes to shifting points of view, and narratives range from a husband who can't stop crying (Nick Arvin's "The Crying Man") to a super-sophisticated domestic robot learning the ways of a Japanese family ("I, Kitty," by Karen Tei Yamashita). Featuring stories by Aimee Bender, Richard Bausch, and Edith Pearlman, this issue is a demonstration of the adventurousness and variety of the short story in English today.
The issue also features Jay Baron Nicorvo's Plan B essay about surfing, and an appreciation of the early work of the poet Robert Duncan.
INTRODUCTION
Percival Everett
EDITOR PROFILE
Anthony Stewart
FICTION
"The Crying Man," by Nick Arvin
"M Is Not Dead," by Kafah Bachari
"Veterans Night," by Richard Bausch
"Baskets," by Aimee Bender
"The Slight," by Paula Closson Buck
"Before Letting Go," by Carole Burns
"New Brother," by Andrea Dupree
"Maternity," by Brian Evenson
"The Yuppie Threesome Next Door," by Gina Frangello
"Algeline," by Laird Hunt
"Paradise Cove," by Lisa Lee
"Excerpt from The Seance Book Club," by Howard Norman
"Fishwater," by Edith Pearlman
"The Ghost Writer," by Elisabeth Sheffield
"Colt," by Christopher Torockio
"Self Report," by Paula Whyman
"I, Kitty," by Karen Tei Yamashita
MISC
"Jesus Was a Surfer," a Plan B essay by Jay Baron Nicorvo
"Worlds Out of Worlds," a Look2 essay on Robert Duncan by Katherine Robinson
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