I like a bricks-and-mortar bookstore as much as the next person—don’t even ask me how much I spent last week at Porter Square Books—but I’ve got an Amazon habit like you wouldn’t believe. It’s true that I’ve held out against the lure of one-click ordering. I even practice a stringent routine of self-editing: I [...]
Urchins, While Swimming
by Catherynne M. Valente
From the December 2006 issue
On the third day the ardent hermit
Was sitting by the shore, in love,
Awaiting the enticing mermaid,
As shade was lying on the grove.
Dark ceded to the sun’s emergence;
By then the monk had disappeared,
No one knew where, and only urchins,
While swimming, saw a hoary beard.
–Aleksandr Pushkin
Rusalka, 1819
I: Snail Into Shell
Rybka, you have to wake up.
At night [...]
Master of Reality
by Leszek Kostuj
From the December 2006 issue
Leszek Kostuj was born in Poland (Pleszew) in 1973 and graduated from Pedagogy and Art Department at Adam Mickiewicz University…
