Volume 2
An Online Literary Magazine
March 28, 2009

 

The Incident

Fiction

Norman Maclean

 

Norman Maclean reveals the art and craft behind A River Runs Through It in this previously unpublished story, which includes a key passage from the classic novella...

Walking on Whales' Backs

Fiction

Irene Wanner

 

A widow journeys to Scotland's Isle of Skye, hoping to honor her late husband's wishes by finding a suitable resting place for his ashes and in the process ease her own grief...

The Assignment

Fiction

Bharti Kirchner

 

Tired of having his Seattle writing group rip his manuscript to shreds, Paolo decides to leave town, accepting a shady assignment from his agent to do some sleuthing in Singapore...

 

Tony Turpin, "View from the Studio Window" (1976), watercolor/ mixed media. Image courtesy of the artist. (http://turpinart.com)

 

Haunted by Waters: A Talk with Norman Maclean

Interview

Nick O’Connell

 

"One of my fascinations about my own life is that every now and then I see a thing that unravels as if an artist had made it. It has a beautiful design and shape and rhythm. Wordsworth, who affected me a great deal, had this theory about what he calls “spots of time” that seem almost divinely shaped. When I look back on my own life, it is a series of very disconnected spots of time. My stories are those spots of time..."

Dispatches

The Michelangelo of Meat

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

The author travels to Panzano, Italy, desperately seeking a Bistecca Alla Fiorentina from meat maestro Dario Cecchini of Antica Macelleria Cecchini...

In the Basement

Nonfiction

Larry Lustig

 

A daughter's cardiac event plunges a family into crisis as they struggle to cope with her rare health condition and look to the support of friends and family to bring them through the ordeal...

Editor's Note

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

A River Runs Through It stood out immediately, a story written in a style that resembled the lapidary quality of stones, worked and reworked until it achieved a weight and resonance beyond ordinary language...

 

 

 

 

Home | Search | About Us | Submissions | Mailing List | Links | The Writer's Workshop