Volume 5
An Online Literary Magazine
March 31, 2011

 

Bird Cloud Excerpt

Nonfiction

Annie Proulx

 

Well do I know my own character negatives—bossy, impatient, reclusively shy, short-tempered, single-minded. The good parts are harder to see, but I suppose a fair dose of sympathy and even compassion is there, a by-product of the writer’s imagination...

Stuck in the Sacristy

Fiction

Dave Buchanan

 

I was an altar boy the day my mother first fed the body of Christ to the parish of St. Rose of Lima. I wanted to reach out and tell her it was no big deal and maybe even wipe the perspiration from her upper lip. But it was a big deal for her...

Last Days: The Bitter and the Sweet

Nonfiction

Alexandra Garfield

 

We are at the epicenter of cutting edge medicine at Yale-New Haven hospital, but the family believes my father would want to gracefully live out his last days at home with his dog under the cherry trees. We are negotiating the course of his last days...

 

A bouncer in front of Crazy Horse Gentlemen's Club in San Francisco, CA.

 

True Power

Fiction

Paul Lewellan

 

Prisoner rehabilitation through the Great Books and exotic dancing...

Dispatches

The Heart of Hospitality

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

Traveling to southern France, the author searches for the spirit of Domaine Tempier winery, a storied Provençal property that served as inspiration for Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Restaurant and much of the American organic cuisine movement...

Glencolumcille

Fiction

Robin Curtiss

 

It's half eleven and the sky over Dublin town is blacker than mortal sin. Fulton, having taken in a performance of Riders to the Sea at the Abbey, is tramping over O'Connell Bridge on the way to his Grafton Street lodgings...

Editor's Note: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe of Book Publishing?

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

Online retailer Amazon.com presents a threat to traditional book selling and publishing, but is there an upside for authors? Amazon's Jon Fine argues there is, outlining its publishing programs for writers...

 

 

 

 

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