Volume 3
An Online Literary Magazine
November 18, 2009

 

Excerpt from The Big Burn

Nonfiction

Timothy Egan

 

How much time did they have until Wallace burned to the ground? An hour or two?... Timothy Egan reads the harrowing opening scene of his new nonfiction book.

The Dark Side of the Moon

Nonfiction

Mike Medberry

 

An environmentalist visits the Craters of the Moon National Monument, seeking to protect the harsh, elemental landscape, and ends up barely managing to save himself...

Bullets And Sausage

Nonfiction

Claudia Serea

 

On the 20th anniversary of the Romanian Revolution, the author remembers the riots, the violence, the street demonstrations and how the simple act of making sausage with her mother allowed her to survive...

 

Demonstrators on the street, Bucharest, Romania, December 1989. These pictures were published in a book entitled: "1989 Libertate Roumanie" by Denoel Paris, dedicated to the French journalist Jean-Louis Calderon shot dead during the events.

 

Nature Bats Last: A Talk with Timothy Egan

Interview

Nick O’Connell

 

"I’m an outdoors lover like most Northwesterners. But if I were living in Milan, I’d be writing about Milanese intrigue. If I were living in Florida, I’d be writing about the swamp and politics. If I were living in Philly, I’d be writing ethnic stories. But I live here. My storytelling is a product of where I live. It’s as simple as that. I didn’t set out to write ecological stories. All my writing is about the search for place and how nature affects us. But I’m not an ideological environmentalist in any way; storytelling is my number one motivation. Find the story..."

Dispatches

High Adventure on the Haute Route

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

The slope ended abruptly at the top of an icy 60-degree couloir. Peering down, I spotted a rock jutting out before the couloir plummeted to the glacier below. I stopped and looked back at our guide. This was the route?...

Some Hearts You Can't Even Give Away

Fiction

Richard Holinger

 

A son declares his intention to be nothing like his aging father, yet in visiting him at a nursing home and bringing him apples but not Almond Joys, the unexpected occurs...

Editor's Note

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

How can writers win back their credibility and regain their audience? The answer lies with learning to research and interview...

 

 

 

 

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