Fiction & Poetry
In The July/August 2009 Issue
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Featured Archive Content
Wallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths.
An index of Atlantic interviews with more than 80 fiction writers, poets, and critics.
The 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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By Robert Wrigley.
Poetry
By Garrison Keillor.
A close reading, with audio. By Rosanna Warren.
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Dispatch
A rare books librarian contends that the Amazon Kindle will promote the culture of letters, not undermine it. By Matthew Battles.
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Critic and essayist Sven Birkerts comments on what we lose in the page-to-screen transfer. By Sven Birkerts.
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Do you suffer from blogaholism, Twitteritis, RSS Dependency, or Status Update Disorder? Then this is the seminar for you... By Polly Frost.
Interviews
Poet Linda Bierds talks about her career, her new collection of poetry, and her perpetual quest to capture "the grand ineffable" By Sarah Cohen.
Flashbacks
Both Lincoln and Obama dabbled in poetry as young adults. Herewith, a consideration of a poem by Lincoln that appeared in The Atlantic. Introduction by David Barber.
Dispatch
Stockholm’s pretensions toward literary clout would be almost laughable—except that it has the Nobel Prize, the world’s single most powerful literary symbol. By James F. English.
Soundings
"As Rimbaud sought to reinvent love, he reinvented writing—and violently." A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. With readings by Rosanna Warren. By Rosanna Warren.
Interviews
Mary Jo Salter talks about her new collection, Phone Call to the Future; editing The Norton Anthology of Poetry; and her early days as an assistant poetry editor at The Atlantic. By Sarah Cohen.
Interviews
Aryn Kyle talks about the American West as a character, writing from a child's perspective, and her debut novel, The God of Animals By Jessica Murphy Moo.
Interviews
Joseph O'Neill, an Irishman raised in Holland, talks about The Great Gatsby, post-9/11 New York, and his new novel, Netherland. By Katie Bacon.
Interviews
The author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake talks about her affinity for "plainness," why she avoids book reviews, and her new collection of short stories. By Isaac Chotiner.
Flashbacks
A look back at Charles Chesnutt and his pioneering African-American fiction. Introduction by Lucy Moore.
Interviews
Nick Hornby, the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch, talks about the pitfalls of contemporary literary culture, his ambition to be the male Anne Tyler, and his new novel for young adults. By Jessica Murphy.
Poetry
An Atlantic poet remembered. By David Barber.
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