Table of Contents

Table Talk

C. K. Williams
Poem: Writers Writing Dying

Javier Marías
Miscellany: Uncle Jesús

Alberto Manguel
Books: The Muse of Impossibility

Donald Hall
Poem: Sleep

Yiyun Li
Fiction: A Small Sacrifice

Richard Locke
Books: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Adam Phillips, Kathryn Crim, P. N. Furbank,
Christopher Ricks, Wendy Lesser
A Symposium on Erving Goffman

Kay Ryan
Poem: The Main Difficulty of Water Wheels

Jess Row
Theater: Wallace Shawn

Andrea Cohen
Poem: Hardtack

Wendy Lesser
Opera: The Nose

Corey Marks
Poem: Dumb Luck

Steve Vineberg
Theater: When the Rain Stops Falling

David Mason
Poem: Gone Missing

Jessica Hendry Nelson
Memoir: Fall

Samn Stockwell
Poem: Sunday, Antonio’s

Tony Tulathimutte
Fiction: Inheritance

David Wagoner
Poem: The Boiling Point

Rick Barot
Art: Courbet’s Winter

Letters to the Editor


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Cover Art: William Heick, Hats, 1952 (reproduced courtesy of the artist and SFMOMA).

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