Back & Then

 

From the Editors
In This Issue

 

Fiction

Note from Fiction Editors Rachel Mangini and Jacob Spears

Snapshot #9: The Arbus Carnival by Terri Brown-Davidson

’65 by Jeffrey Colvin

Summer Jobs and Hope by Michael Fischer

Top of the Stairs by Yardenne Greenspan

The Lexmark by Matt Sailor

Notes Like Water by Marc Hudson

Stranger Sleep by Sarah Rose Etter

 

Nonfiction

Note from Nonfiction Editors Amanda Giracca and Nikki Carroll

Hooking Up on the Side of the Super-Highway by Joshua Patton

The Essentials and Methods of Survival by Justin Lawrence Daugherty

 

Poetry

Note from Poetry Editors Soham Patel and Leigh Thomas

Harmony” by Christine Swint

The Night We Turned to Flies” by Kiki Vera Johnson

Valentine’s Day” by Alec Hershman

Dot” by Ryan Sanford Smith

Un-Jungian” by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft

Mary-Alice Greases Her Gun with Butter” by Lily Duffy

Trying to Have Something Left Over” by Caily Grube

Northwest on Smith Hill” by Robert Snyderman

Skellig Michael” and “The Sword in the Wilderness” by John Sherer

The Rug,” “None Can Die,” and “Shadows” by Matthew Olzmann

New Math” by Kate Lebo

And a special poem series by Kate Lebo

Blueberry Pie

Mud Pie

Cranberry Pie

Rhubarb Custard Pie

Pecan Pie

 

Interviews

First the Spark, Then the Fire: An Interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya

Golden Years Still Sizzling for Author Albert French

An Interview with Kate Northrop

An Interview with Longform.org Founders, Max Linsky and Aaron Lammer

Special Addition: Transcript of Longform Presentation at Pitt