StoryQuarterly 45

StoryQuarterly 45

Reviews
Wendy Camerieri / The Cycle of Overexposure: A Review of Sybil Exposed 8
Christina Durborow / Mad for the Mid-Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Road 50 Years Later 11
Nick Ripatrazone / On Mostly Redneck 13
Fiction
Contest Judge
Karen Russell / On “My Catholic Boyfriend”
16
Contest Winner
Josie Sigler / My Catholic Boyfriend
18
Lydia Davis / The Woman in Red 36
Jane Birdsall / The Common App 37
Chaz Reetz-Laiolo / Bird 46
Rachel Siviski / Little Death 63
William Reese Hamilton / The Chingwangtao Gambit 73
Samantha Levy / The End of Free Love 85
Virignia Konchan / Blackbird 106
Ryan Meany / Solving 121
Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt / The Complete and Unabridged History of Guns 132
James Tate Hill / Ms. Nisker’s Health Class 150
Josh Weil / Swimming 171
David Vann / It’s Not Yours 205
James Robison / Aria 218
Gary Percespe / Summer: 1972 222
Rae Bryant / Good Girl 235
John Kinsella / Embarassed 247
Idra Novey / The Specialist 257
Sarah Gauch / Wall-E 262
T. C. McCarthy / A-I-P 282
Karen Malley / Powder Hollow 296
Larry Rothe / When the Sun is Setting in California 306
Tyler Sage / Ecotage 309
Blythe Winslow / Big Love 333
James Marcus / Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 344
Richard Burgin / The Reunion 363
Michael Blumethal / He Had Tried 382
Essay
T.R. Hummer / In the Palm of the Poet’s Hand 388
Contributors to StoryQuarterly 45 400

Publisher: Rutgers University
Executive Editor: J.T. Barbarese
Senior Contributing Editor: M.M.M. Hayes
Senior Advisory Editor: Howard Marchitello
Senior Associate Editors: Lisa Zeidner, Lauren Grodstein, Jayne Anne Phillips
Associate Editor: Zac Roesch
Managing Editor: Randy Schmidt, Mike Watson
Editorial Assistants: Nabina Das, Amy O’Hearn, Jeanette Trion, Dawn Walsh, Therese Halscheid, Michael Haeflinger, Nissa Lee, David McKenna, Violet LeVoit
Founding Editors: Pam Painter, Tom Bracken, F.R. Katz, Thalia Selz, and Delores Weinberg

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