Conjunctions: Fifty Contemporary Writers No. 50 by Bradford Morrow

Conjunctions #50

by Bradford Morrow

Winner of the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Literary Editing. Winner of a 2007 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Story. Winner of two 2007 Pushcart Prizes for Fiction, and four Special Mentions. Honored with two 2007 "Harper's" Readings selections. And now, in spring 2008, "Conjunctions" publishes its milestone fiftieth issue and offers readers a chance to discover once more why it is the most celebrated and provocative literary journal on the scene today. " 50" features never-before-published fiction, poetry, essays and drama by 50 of contemporary literature's finest writers, including Sandra Cisneros, William H. Gass, Diane Williams, Ann Lauterbach, John Ashbery, Rick Moody, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Can Xue, Eduardo Galeano, Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Sorrentino and Charles Bernstein, along with exciting new voices like Matthew Hamity and Brian Booker. In the late 1980s, the legendary George Plimpton, editor of "The Paris Review," called "Conjunctions," "The most interesting and superbly edited literary journal founded in the last decade." Almost 20 years later, the promise expressed in his words continues to be kept. "Fifty Contemporary Writers" is a must-read for anyone interested in what's happening at the front edge of writing today.

Genres: Short Stories

Paperback

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

Bradford Morrow has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and rural upstate New York, though he grew up in Colorado and lived and worked in a variety of places in between. While in his mid-teens, he traveled through rural Honduras as a member of the Amigos de las Americas program, serving as a medical volunteer in the summer of 1967. The following year he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his last year of high school as a foreign exchange student at a Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1973, he took time off from studying at the University of Colorado to live in Paris for a year. After doing graduate work on a Danforth Fellowship at Yale University, he moved to Santa Barbara, California, to work as a rare book dealer. In 1981 he relocated to New York City to the literary journal Conjunctions, which he founded with the poet Kenneth Rexroth, and to write novels. He and his two cats divide their time between NYC and upstate New York.

Visit his website at www.bradfordmorrow.com.