<p>18 Lies and 3 Truths includes 18 great stories and 3 essays on the art of writing by today’s master storytellers: Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Hoffman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others.</p>

"18 Lies and 3 Truths" Great American Fiction and Non-Fiction: The 2007 StoryQuarterly Annual

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Narrative Magazine

The NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM Winter 2008 issue features great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including interviews with Reynolds Price and Richard Rodriguez, new short short stories from Robert Olen Butler, a classic essay by W. H. Auden on "Reading," new poems by Marvin Bell, and a report on child soldiers in Columbia.

Narrative Magazine Winter Issue 2008

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Narrative Magazine Spring Issue 2008

Edgarian, Carol

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Fall 2008 issue of NARRATIVE Magazine features a rare and dazzling array of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by some of the country's most celebrated contemporary authors, and introduces innovative writing by several of the most promising up and coming writers. Included in this issue are the winning stories from our Love Story Contest by authors Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Maud Newton, and Janet Burroway. Also in this indispensable new collection: nonfiction from Bill Barich, poetry by Michelle Bitting, and a classic selection from W. H. Auden.

Narrative Magazine Fall Issue 2008

Jenks, Tom

NARRATIVE Magazine’s Winter 2009 issue offers an exclusive array of first class fiction–including an advance look at new novels by T.C. Boyle and Janet Burroway; masterful short stories by rising talents Adam Atlas and Skip Horack; the prize-winning stories from NARRATIVE’s First-Person Contest; and a pithy short short by Barry Gifford–and a rich selection of poetry, with new and wondrous work by Michael Dickman and Dan Gerber among several others. This exceptional volume also offers an outstanding selection of non-fiction: an illuminating interview with Jayne Anne Phillips, Best Advice from Amy Bloom, and a candid and profound exchange of letters between the acclaimed Richard Bausch and an aspiring young writer struggling with the morality of depicting our violent history accurately. “Miss Harriet,” Guy de Mauppassant’s classic and wrenching tale of unrequited love, rounds off this superb collection.

Narrative Magazine Winter Issue 2009

The great new Fall 2009 issue from NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM offers an excerpt from Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler’s ingenuous novel Hell, revealing the eternal fates of Dick Cheney, J. Edgar Hoover, Sylvia Beach, and many other infamous characters. In a personally revealing, humorous vein, Melanie Gideon’s “Mattress Wars,” excerpted from her best-selling book, The Slippery Year, relates the perils of sharing a bed. Award-winning novelist Ann Packer’s short story “Molten” takes a mother deep into the lyrics of her lost son’s rock music collection and transports her into a confrontation with the mother of the child her son gave his life to save. Plus, Pia Z. Ehrhardt’s heartful interview with the great Gail Godwin accompanies an excerpt from Godwin’s new epic novel, Unfinished Desires. The issue rounds out with Tom Grimes’s “Water for New Delhi,” an ironic tale about Western philanthropic efforts to address a water crisis in Indian slums; new stories from master writers Richard Bausch and Janet Burroway; an essay by Joyce Carol Oates about mentors and one by David Bradley on jazz; fiction by important newcomers Adam Atlas and Evan James Roskos; poetry by Sherwin Bitsui, Stephen Dobyns, Laura Kasischke, Ben Lerner, Charlie Smith, and Connie Wanek; Broadway lyricist Lynn Ahrens’s Best Advice; Letters to a Young Writer by Ann Beattie and Carol Edgarian; great cartoons; book reviews; a wonderful Reader’s Narrative and a classic tale by Ambrose Bierce. Nowhere can a greater collection of periodical literary art be found. Don’t miss this wonderful issue.

Narrative Magazine Fall Issue 2009

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