In The December 2009 Issue |
Featured Archive Content
The 2008 Fiction IssueStories by Wendell Berry, Aryn Kyle, Jess Row, Cristina Henríquez and others. Ann Patchett on the trials of going on book tour. Poems by Caki Wilkinson, Linda Bierds, D. Nurkse, Rachel Hadas, and others. Also see Fiction 2007, Fiction 2006 and Fiction 2005. 
So You Want to Be a WriterWallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths.
From Salman Rushdie to Zadie SmithAn index of Atlantic interviews with more than 80 fiction writers, poets, and critics.
Kay RyanKay Ryan has been named Poet Laureate. Read a sampling of her poems that have appeared in The Atlantic, including "Among English Verbs" (1998), "This Life" (1993), "Emptiness" (1993), and "Hailstorm" (2003).
Transcripts of a Troubled MindThe short, sad life of Breece D'J Pancake, whose writings in The Atlantic brought to life the dissipated Appalachian world in which he was raised. |
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Fiction Voices of LoveTales of swingers, seductions, and extraordinary perversions. By Paul Theroux.
Fiction Least Resistance“Our first hug, between thermostats and oil filters, gave me a glimpse of where our friendship might lead.”. By Wayne Harrison.
Fiction Fish Story“It was a swollen, gasping, netherworld creature. I had to keep it alive until they could kill it.”. By Rick Bass.
Fiction Alba“Último knew people claimed they’d seen the Virgin Mary. But this was Alba, an ordinary girl.”. By Kent Nelson.
Fiction Furlough“Colleen was coming home from Iraq. But Moira was like a surrogate mother now, almost a surrogate wife.”. By Alexi Zentner. |