Volume 40, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Jerome Liebling
John Edgar Wideman, 1999
PHOTOGRAPH
Table of Contents
Three Portraits, in color, by Jerome Liebling
Africa Is People, a speech by Chinua Achebe
James Baldwin; Praise-Song for James Baldwin, two poems by Andrew Salkey
Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture (1941-1998): “Infinitely political, infinitely human,” an interview with Michael Thelwell
“Mosaic Memory”: Auto/biographical Context(s) in John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and Keepers, by Heather Andrade
Chain, a poem by Susan Donnelly
Barley, a story by John Salter
The Unimportant Lila Parr, a story by Manuel Muñoz
Ghazal for Josey, a poem by Jill McDonough
Practice, a memoir by James Morrison
About the Man Who Jumped from the Bridge, a story by Nancy Carol Moody
Crybaby Butch, a story by Judith Frank
Traffic of our Stage: Why Waiting for Godot?, by Normand Berlin
My Wife’s Therapist, a poem by Angelo Verga
Life is a Caravanserai Has Two Doors I Came in One I Went Out the Other, a story by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, translated from the German by Luise von Flotow
The Impression of Elsewhere, a poem by Michael Teig
Contributors
Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian writer and teacher, is the author of A Man of the People, Things Fall Apart, and several other books. His new book, Home and Exile, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Heather Andrade, an Assistant Professor of English at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL, is currently working on a book on the works of John Edgar Wideman.
Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama and numerous essays ranging from medieval poetry to modern drama and film.
Winner of the 1985 Samuel French Morse Prize from Northeastern University Press, Susan Donnelly currently lives, writes and teaches poetry in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Luise von Flotow is an Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her translation of Life is a Caravanserai is forthcoming from Middlesex University Press, London, and it was supported by the Center for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Judith Frank, author of Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century Satiric Fiction and the Poor, teaches English and Creative Writing at Amherst College.
Jerome Liebling is MR‘s Art and Photography editor.
Jill McDonough teaches at Boston University and Framingham Women’s Prison. She has poetry forthcoming in Petrach in English, the Harvard Review, and Poetry International.
Poet and fiction writer Nancy Carol Moody lives in Eugene, Oregon, and has work forthcoming in Atom Mind and Denali.
James Morrison teaches at North Carolina State University. “Practice,” which appears in this issue, is an excerpt from a memoir forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press.
Manuel Muñoz has published in the Mid-American Review and has work forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a writer, actor, and playwright, won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1991 and the Walter Hasenclever prize in 1993. She was born in Turkey, and came to Germany as a “Guest Worker” at the age of 17. She currently lives in Düsseldorf.
Andrew Salkey, a Jamaican novelist and poet, was a Professor of Writing at Hampshire College and a regular contributor to MR. He wrote or edited four volumes of poetry, five novels, nine children’s and young adult novels, two short-story collections, two books of non-fiction, and eight anthologies.
John Salter has published fiction in the Nebraska Review and the North Dakota Quarterly.
Michael Teig lives in Hatfield, MA.
A Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Michael Thelwell is a contributing editor for MR.
Winner of the 1999 Quentin R. Howard Prize, Angelo Verga hosts the Sunday Readings at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City. His collection, The Six O’clock News, is forthcoming from Wind Publications.