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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

The Kid

by Rachel Glaser from Elimae

	From The Reserve
		by Russell Banks from Web Conjunctions

	The Cook at Swedish Castle
		by Christopher Merkner from Black Warrior Review

	Renting
		by John Michael Cummings from Terrain

	Maura Takes the Multiple Choice Test of her Life So Far
		by Christiana Langenberg from Drunken Boat

Poetry Highlights

Mending Art

by Robert Dana from Pif

	Two Poems
		by Jo McDougall from The 2River View

	Toledo in a Storm (El Greco)
		by Jose Luis Puerto, translated from the Spanish by Michael Bradburn-Ruster from Marlboro Review

	Alice, in The Garden
		by Anne Marie Rooney from Word Riot

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

The Death of Travel Writing

by George Berger from 3:AM Magazine

	Aspects of Robinson
		by D.H. Tracy from Contemporary Poetry Review

	Hard Canvas
		by Ryan Smithson from Identity Theory

	I Have A Dream Sequence: Revisiting a maligned technique
		by Timothy Dugdale from SolPix

	Linear/Nonliner: Simplifying the Complex
		by Tom Hibbard from Big Bridge

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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

Painter

by Jana Martin from The Mississippi Review

	Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA
		by George Saunders from Barcelona Review

	The Go to Girl
		by Duff Brenna from PIF Magazine

	Seven Reasons Jerome Loves Sizzler
		by Tom Lavagnino from Barrelhouse

	Three Fictions
		by Andrew R. Touhy from Web Conjunctions

Poetry Highlights

Two Poems

by Andrea Fitzpatrick from Diagram

	The Rumsfeld Sestina
		by Roger W. Hecht from Mudlark

	How Long This Day of Mine
		by Jawdat Fakhreddine, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen from Marlboro Review

	Four Poems
		by Ali Kazim from MiPOesias

	Attempted Autobiography
		by Kish Song Bear from Fence

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

The Puppet Masters of Ball

by Norman Ball from The Potomac

	The Enigma of W.D. Snodgrass
		by Gilbert Purdy from elima

	The Williams Center Centennial
		by Mark Hillringhouse from The Literary Review

	Lucky Life by Gerald Stern: Revisiting the New Classic
		by Tayve Neese from Del Sol Review of Books

	An Age Of Small Anarchies: Some 70's films to reflect on
		by Timothy Dugdale from Sol Pix

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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

Ravel: An Except from the Novel

by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by by Linda Coverdale from The Literary Review

	Beano's Deal
		by Rob Roberge from Other Voices

	Consumption, or An Autobiography of the Mechanical Portrait
		by Emily Shelton from Another Chicago Magazine

	Independence
		by Kenny Mann from Global City Review

	Hideous Blue
		by William Girardi from The Chattahoochee Review

Poetry Highlights

The Sea

by Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh from Five Points

	Possessions and Ceremonial Spoon
		by Arlene Ang from Caffeine Destiny

	Cowboy Up
		by Charles Wright from Virginia Quarterly Review

	Synchronicity
		by Maya Rani Khosla from Prairie Schooner

	Number 87
		by Barbara Holder from Kennesaw Review

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Longing for Those Mayberry Days

by D.R. Thompson from The Potomac

	The Age of Small Anarchies
		by Timothy Dugdale from Sol Pix

	First Day Back
		by Lane Anderson from Painted Bridge Quarterly

	Essay on What Is Want
		by John D'Agata from Conjunctions

	Lisa's Shoe
		by Jacques Leslie from Drunken Boat

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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

The Seaside Town that They Forgot to Bomb

by Adelle Stripe from 3:AM Magazine

	Things you Should Know, or Notes to the Abyss
		by Sarah Colleen Morgan from Kennesaw Review

	The Cook at Swedish Castle
		by Christopher Merkner from Black Warrior Review

	The New Century
		by Linsey Abrams from Global City Review

	The Thin Ice of Modern Life
		by Judd Mcdonald from The Chattahoochee Review

Poetry Highlights

AWeek Without God, North Shore

by Mary Rose O'Reilley from The Literary Review

	Most Accidents Occur at Home
		by B.T. Shaw from Caffeine Destiny

	Four Poems
		by Edward Field from MiPoesis

	Magic Mouse
		by Mark Doty from Five Points

	Two Fox and Hounds
		by A. Minetta Gould from Elimae

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Last Tango

by Nancy Jensen from Another Chicago Magazine

	Pa Don's Troops
		by Josh Capps from Barcelona Review

	The Encounter
		by Mark Goldblatt from Ducts.org

	A Interview with Robert Shapard and James Thomas
		by Jennifer Pieroni from Quick Fiction

	My Father's House
		by Beatrix Ost, translated from the German by Jonathan McVity and the author from Archipelago

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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

Mother's Summer Vacation

by Katherine Taylor from Prairie Schooner

	A Long Wait for Professor Ferry
		by Susan Lemenello from Kennesaw Review

	The Man's Watch
		by Michael Martone from Diagram

	Baby Skin
		by Chandler Jenrette from Vestal Review

	Use Your Words
		by Lori White from Painted Bride Quarterly

Poetry Highlights

The Tundra Swan

by Jeremey Cagle from 5_Trope

	Adornments
		by Thanh Thao, translated by Linh Dinh from Drunken Boat

	Dialectical Poems
		by Jacques Debrot from Mudlark

	The Book of Joel
		by Robert Hill Long from Marlboro Review

	Five Poems
		by Teresa Cader from Perihelion

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

The Source

by George Garrett from The Chattahoochee Review

	Our Silver Anniversary
		by Angie Carter from Black Warrior Review

	Without a Sound
		by Monica Jacobe from Del Sol Review

	Seeking Truth in Dramatized Reality
		by T.B. Meek from SolPix

	Looking for Spiral Jetty
		by Lance Larsen from Quarterly West

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best of the LITERARY JOURNALS
by Walter Cummins

Fiction Highlights

Fake Fire and Rescue

by Blake Butler from Barrelhouse

	Play
		by Thomas David Lisk from Potion

	5" X 6" in a Sturdy Frame
		by Caleb Ross from The Vestal Review

	The Thin Ice of Modern Life
		by Judd McDonald from The Chattahoochee Review

Poetry Highlights

Two Poems: Dog and Shuttle

by Mariya Gusev from In Posse Reviw

	Still Life in the Shadow of a Volcano
		by Frances Justine Post from Diagram

	Summer Ceremonial
		by Lynne MacMahon from Quarterly West

	The Rumsfeld Sestina
		by Roger W. Hecht from Mudlark

	Erato (Love + Lyrical Poetry)
		by Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Translated from the French by Dawn Cornelio from Double Room

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Lilliputian Vermont and the Forces of Giantism

by Richard Russo from Potomac Review

	Dostoevski on Skinner Street
		by Thomas E. Kennedy from The Literary Traveler

	Poetry and Loss
		by Russell Thornton from The Del Sol Review of Books

	Inside Dick Cavett's Brain
		by Timothy Dugdale from SolPix

	Learning Friendship
		by Dona Stein Luongo from Perihelion

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