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Volume 20 Number 2

Raymond Strom
The Tattooed Arms Luis Amate Perez
Florencia

In The Print Issue:

Lara Vapnyar
"L and D"

Amy Reed
Under the Wall

Isaac Babel
Forword
From: The Unpublished Letters of Isaac Babel

Raymond Strom
The Tattooed Arms

John Sullivan
Love, Vaguely

Jon Udelson
Eva

Joyce Carol Oates
The Blind Man's Sighted Daughters

Gila tal
Brass Knuckles

Jason Trask
From: Putting Out the Sun

Kim Chinquee
Doll

Mark Jay Mirsky
Lake

Luis Amate Perez
Florencia

Steve Stern
From: The Frozen Rabbi

Nurit Zarchi
Sailor

Georgi Gospodinov
A Living Soul

Zack Bean
Lucky Dog

Stephen Marche
For the Other Eugene Schiefflin

William Powers
November Shoot, Rain

Daniel Grandbois
The Wife

FICTION remembers Dorothea Straus

by FICTION Magazine

This summer saw the passing of our great friend and colleague Dorothea Straus. We remember her fondly, for not only her friendship but the stories she's given us over the years.

We hope you enjoy the following video of Dorothea reading one such story.

Dorothea Straus reads from her fiction

The Editor's interminable reading list for his graduate creative writing classes and the ignorant in general.


Rants at the world (and a few raves).


Short stories and other works available exclusively through FICTION's online edition.


Stories by T. Duncan Anderson, Kristin Kearns, Luc Lang, Anthony Farrington, Paul Celan, E. C. Osondu, Joseph McElroy, Michael Poore, Kay Sloan, Gregory Blake Smith, Mark Jay Mirsky, Max Frisch, Patricia Schultheis, Tim Horvath, Martha Schwendener, Richard Wirik, Mary Marcus, Thomas E. Kennedy, Ryan Effgen.


Stories by Ilse Aichinger, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bichsel, Michael Brownstein, Jürg Federspiel, Max Frisch, Ivy Goodman, Luis Gusmán, Peter Handke, Alexander Kluge, Jürg Laederach, Enrique Medina, Mark Jay Mirsky, Adolf Muschg, Jayne Anne Phillips, Hans Joachim Schädlich.


Stories by John Barth, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Ye Weilin, Lu Wenfu, Wang Zengqi, Zhang Xinxin, Tie Ning, Marguerite Duras, David Foster Wallace, Ana María Matute, Brian Kiteley, Jürg Laederach, Adolfo Bioy-Casares, William Tester, Nahid Rachlin, Frederic Tuten, Karie Youngdahl, Robert Ellis Gordon, Mark Jay Mirsky, Faye Sobkowsky, Anonymous.


Stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Lucy Honig, John Hawkes, Lucia Nevai, Marguerite Duras, Russell Banks, Camilo Jose Cela, Anthony Kerrigan, Martha Upton, Michael Kun, Roberta Gordon, Elias Papadimitrakopoulos, Mitchell Levenberg, Elizabeth Richards, Michael Stephens.


Stories by Juan Benet, Aldolfo Bioy-Casares, Max Frisch, Anna Sper, Jurg Laederach, David Hellerstein, Nahid Rachlin, Enid Dame, Seymour Simckes, Uri Nissan Gnessin, Delsa Winer, Daniel Born, Sharon Lyn Pugh, Diane Simmons, Brian Kiteley, Peri Chalmers.


Stories by Peter Handke, Cauldio Magris, Harold Brodkey, Ruth Zernova, Gabrielle Selz, Lisa Poneck, Bruce Robinson, Ezra Zonana, Mitchell Levenberg, Deborah Joy Corey, Lia Smith, Matthew Sharpe, Siri Hustvedt, Urs Widmer, Mark Jay Mirsky.


Stories by Elizabeth Bobrick, John Cussen, Ivan Mandy, Thomas Mann, Mark Jay Mirsky, Susan Moon, Robert Musil, Mary Nagel, George Nicholas, Shahrnush Parsipur, Daniel Quinn, Barry Silesky, Alfred Vitale, Tom Yori, Zyranna Zateli.


Stories by Heinrich Böll, Emily Cerf, John J. Clayton, Tim Gautreaux, Ben-Zion Gold, Mary Gordon, Elizabeth Graver, Roger Grenier, Tabitha Griffin, Neil Grimmett, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Daniel A. Gutstein, Fanny Howe, Frigyes Karinthy, Laura Long, Liza Lorwin, Morton Marcus, A.G. Mojtabai, Kirk Nesset, Joyce Carol Oates, Bennet Paris, Dorothea Straus, GaleRenee Walden, Debbie Lee Wesselman.


Stories by Cathleen Calbert, Russell Chamberlain, Anton Chekhov, Meg Files, Reginald Gibbons, Mary Gordon, Joshua Harmon, John Holman, Frigyes Karinthy, Craig S. Kirby, J. Robert Lennon, Jardine Libaire, John Lowry, Klaus Mann, Katherine Toy Miller, Rob Morris, Robert Schirmer, Sharon Solwitz, R. S. Steinberg.


Stories by Lindsay Ahl, Aharon Appelfeld, Isaac Babel, Paula Bomer, Cathleen Calbert, Dan Carpenter, Mei Chin, William Clifford, Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Jennifer Davis, Robert Dawson, Meinrad Inglin, Liza Lorwin, Robert Menasse, Muriel Moulton, Annapurna Potluri, Dina Rabadi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Peter Moore Smith, R. Clifton Spargo, Suzi Spraker, John Sullivan, Stacy M. Tintocalis, John Edgar Wideman, Erika T. Wurth.


Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Richard Wirick, Max Apple, Paul Segar, Severo Sarduy, John Barth, Stephanie Austin, Jo McKendy, Brett Berk, Aner Shalev, David J. Snyder, Willian Giraldi, Valerie Brelinski, Lisa Wohl, Mark J Mirsky


Isaac Babel, Zack Bean, Kim Chinquee, Georgi Gospodinov, Daniel Grandbois, Stephen Marche, Mark Jay Mirsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Luis Amate Perez, William Powers, Amy Reed, Steve Stern, Raymond Strom, John Sullivan, Gila Tal, Jason Trask, Jon Udelson, Nurit Zarchi, Lara Vapnyar


Open Letter On Our Numbering Switch
by FICTION Magazine

FICTION remembers Dorothea Straus
by FICTION Magazine

Editor's Reading List
by Mark Mirsky

From: Autonauts of the Cosmoway
by Julio Cortazar

Editor's Reading List
by Mark Mirsky