Here’s a little selection of pieces from Sonora Review 55/56, the upcoming double issue, which includes:
fiction from Kellie Wells, John Holliday, Ryan Call, Jarod Rostello, Sharma Shields, Wendy Rawlings, Katherine Lien Chariott, Michael Conn and David Lombardino
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non-fiction from Sean Lovelace, Elizabeth Bennett, Riley Hanick, Henry Ronan-Daniell, Jennifer Schaller and Louis Alberto Urrea
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poetry from Eliot Khalil Wilson, Yi-Fen Chou, Peter Jay Shippy, Tamiko Beyer, Dan Pinkerton, Martin Moran, Ryo Yamaguchi, dawn lonsinger, Keith Montesano, Laynie Brown, Joshua Butts, Clinton Frakes, Cralan Kelder, G.C. Waldrep, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Tim Peterson and Gregory Lawless
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reviews of James Wood, Marilynne Robinson, Eça de Queirós and David Ohle
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interviews with Junot Diaz, Ben Marcus, Marilynne Robinson and Ron Hansen
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a 100 page tribute feature devoted to the work of David Foster Wallace, former Sonora Fiction Editor,
with an uncollected story, Solomon Silverfish, and essays and reflections from Sven Birkerts, Tom Bissell, Charles Bock, Marshall Boswell, Greg Carlisle, Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, Ken Kalfus, Glenn Kenny, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Rick Moody interviewing Michael Pietsch, and art from Karen Green.
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new work by Aimee Bender along with the results of our Third Annual Short-Short Contest.
Melancholia Hypochondriaca by John Holliday
“Rumor has it that Alex Sweeting recorded Ulysses with only two 30-minute breaks, four glasses of water, and one stick of celery. This rumor is not true.”
My Father Was a Traveling Salesman by Jennifer H. Schaller
“Even when my father was in prison, I held out hope that he would one day become the parent I dreamed of.”
Of Power and The American Condition: An Interview with Junot Diaz by PR Griffis & Mika Taylor
“My interest is that the Dominican Republic was just kind of a proxy for talking about what I consider The American Condition.”
Finding Out about Sex from a 1950’s College Biology Textbook that My Dad’s Friend John Miner Defaced Their Sophomore Year by Yi-Fen Chou
“But the chapter on reproduction / was tamper-proof, the drawings clotted /with implausible anatomy…”
