The ninth issue of Hobart: Another Literary Journal. Built around the theme of games, this issue features essays on Magic: The Gathering and Leisure Suit Larry, comics by Jeffrey Brown and Lilli Carré, a roundtable discussion abotu role-playing games, and short stories about nearly everything else game-related.

Hobart 9: The Games Issue

Jeffrey Brown

Barry Graham

Mary Miller

Kim Chinquee

Matt Bell

Brandi Wells

Stefan Kiesbye

Bryan Furuness

Joe Wenderoth

Grant Perrt

E.P. Chiew

Jennifer Pieroni

Dave Madden

Lille Carré

Mike Alber

Hobart

Read remarkable new fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversations about literature in the Winter 2011 issue of The Literary Review, publishing international work quarterly since 1957. Refrigerator Mothers looks at the completely incomprehensible psychological archetypes and staggered creative momentum of motherhood, as well as outdated theories of psychosis.

The Literary Review: Refrigerator Mothers

Buddhadeva Bose

Jessie van Eerden

JENNY OFFILL

Rebecca Wolff

The Literary Review

James Scudamore

Kelli Russell Agodon

Charles Wyatt

Line-Maria Lang

Ceridwen Morris

Jena Salon

Minna Proctor

Fairleigh Dickinson University

In his debut collection How They Were Found, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again. Throughout these thirteen stories, Bell's careful prose burrows at the foundations of his characters' lives until they topple over, then painstakingly pores over the wreckage for what rubbled humanity might yet remain to be found.

How They Were Found (Large Print 16pt)

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

ReadHowYouWant

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * USA TODAY * ESQUIRE * PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * LITERARY HUB * GOODREADS "Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell's Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious." --Kelly Link, Get in Trouble A "work of incandescent imagination" (Karen Russell) from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple.&nbsp; In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken--and possibly healed. Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the world's resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power--and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the company's original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build. A thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier--and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. Hugely ambitious in scope and theme, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer "as self-assured as he is audacious" (NPR) who "may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas" (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic, part tech thriller, part reinvented fairy tale, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate, civic, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all.&nbsp;

Appleseed: A Novel

Literary

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

Stan Silliman's Golden Rules

Stan Silliman

Comedy Empire Press

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