Narrative Magazine Winter Issue 2009

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.