Ploughshares Fall 2014 Guest-Edited by Percival Everett Percival Everett Editor
by Percival Everett
2021-04-06 16:13:33
Ploughshares Fall 2014 Guest-Edited by Percival Everett Percival Everett Editor
by Percival Everett
2021-04-06 16:13:33
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 sho...
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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.INTRODUCTIONPercival EverettEDITOR PROFILEAnthony StewartFICTIONThe Crying Man, by Nick ArvinM Is Not Dead, by Kafah BachariVeterans Night, by Richard BauschBaskets, by Aimee BenderThe Slight, by Paula Closson BuckBefore Letting Go, by Carole BurnsNew Brother, by Andrea DupreeMaternity, by Brian EvensonThe Yuppie Threesome Next Door, by Gina FrangelloAlgeline, by Laird HuntParadise Cove, by Lisa Leeexcerpt from The Seance Book Club, by Howard NormanFishwater, by Edith PearlmanThe Ghost Writer, by Elisabeth SheffieldColt, by Christopher TorockioSelf Report, by Paula WhymanI, Kitty, by Karen Tei YamashitaMISCJesus Was a Surfer, a Plan B essay by Jay Baron NicorvoWorlds Out of Worlds, a Look2 essay on Robert Duncan by Katherine Robinson
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