Conjunctions #26: Sticks and Stones

Conjunctions #26

by Bradford Morrow (Editor), Ben Marcus (Introduction)

Works by some two dozen poets, playwrights, and novelists, including David Mamet, Paul Auster, Michael Palmer, Rikki Ducornet, Arthur Sze, and Norman Manea are featured alongside Robert Coover and a previously unpublished story by the great Angela Carter.A special fiction portfolio guest-edited by Ben Marcus, presents eleven young writers of harrowing originality -- Rick Moody, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Dawn Raffel, among others -- and proves that "sticks and stones" can still break bones.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

i've been mostly keeping up with conjunctions since issue 30, and since then the literary biannual has been an important marker in my direction as a reader. i've discovered favorite writers, been inspired to buy books, and just generally enjoyed a large fraction of the journal's catalog since spring of 1998, when i picked up a copy to read vollmann and coover. if i'd started 2 years earlier (quite impossible, as two years earlier i was still focusing on orson scott card, terry pratchett, and douglas adams re-reads) my mind would have been blown even further open. this issue covers not only a wide array or personal favorites (coover, rikki ducornet, diane williams, thalia field, elaine equi) but some authors i've discovered only recently but quickly grown to love (brian evenson, david ohle, gary lutz). it was charming to find the original publication outlet for some stories i'd not read before, and to read others i'd yet to discover.