Inside this Issue:
December’s the month much of the country receives its first serious snowfall. Down in Florida it means rain and maybe a little nostalgia, and we don’t lose our tans so much as dial them back. Carl Mealie, winner of our Fall 2009 Writing Regimen Contest, understands how the weather can be callous. You should check out his winning story, and if you haven’t already, you should check out our Writing Regimens, currently underway but beginning anew in the spring.
This month we also have four great interviews—with Pulitzer Prize-winning Steven Millhauser, Thomas Cooper, Kathryn Ma, and Amy Lemmon. And from our archives, we dug up two wonderful podcasts. In the first, Chris Jones, author of Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry, reads from his upcoming book of poems. In the second, David Vann reads from his award-winning story collection, Legend of a Suicide.
Have a great holiday season, and we’ll see you again in the new year.
Photography by Nickolas Muray, courtesy of the George Eastman House collection on the Flickr Commons. Murray was a famous portraiture artist of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. See more of his work here.
