Fourth Genre 17, No. 1

IN THIS ISSUE

Editor's Note

Winner, 2014 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize
David Zoby, “My Brother Arrives in Kansas”

Runner-Up, 2014 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize
Beth Richards, “Fight”

Essays
Liz Falvey, “Ultimate Gifts”
Gina Troisi, “The Angle of Flickering Light”
Dawn S. Davies, “Band-Aid Wrappers at the Bottom of the Bin: A Soliloquy”
Molly Beer, “On Nativity”
Re’Lynn Hansen, “Race This Race”
Carolyn Flynn, “Resurrection”
Emily Bradley, “The Gravity of Marble”
Gary Garvin, “Above the Roofs of Paris, a Non-Memoir”
Gail Seneca, “Waiting for the Bomb”
Aurvi Sharma, “Poetry, KY”
Melissa L. Sevigny, “Shallow Roots”

Essay with Commentary
Patrick Madden, “Spit”
Patrick Madden, “Commentary on ‘Spit’: Transmuting the Ruder World into the Finer”

Writer as Reader
Robin Silbergleid, “Pregnant Pauses: Re-reading Carole Maso’s The Room Lit by Roses”

Review Essays
“Inter-Review: Jen Percy and Leslie Jamison Talk with Each Other about Their New Books”
Randon Billings Noble, “Many Ways of Seeing, Many Ways of Saying”
Fred Arroyo, “Listening to Memory”
Paul Haney, “The Burroway House”