From On Extended Wings, Chapter One
by Diane Ackerman

You are seated tensely in the cockpit of a single-engine plane, one hand crushing the control wheel as if it were a test of grip strength at a fair, the other half-opening the throttle with a tentativeness that has nonetheless sent you charging down the runway at 40 mph, toward the thick, wreck-hungry forest edging the airport, called Sapsucker Woods. Half the runway is spent behind you, the air is
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—Nickole Brown and Judith Taylor, from Air Fare

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

07-08-2012
The Children

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The Children
by Paula Bohince

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Something in My Eye
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Rough Likeness
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Small Fires
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This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

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