Gargoyle #53

53rd issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features an amazing cover by Rikki Ducornet and James C. L. Brown's provocative essay on Daisy's "Passing" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The new issue is also jam-packed with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by Roberta Allen, Nin Andrews, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Victoria Bond, Mary Ann Cain, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Sandra M. Castillo, Kelly Cherry, Deborah Elliott Deutschman, Alex Grant, Elizabeth Hanly, Myronn Hardy, Amy Holman, Esther Iverem, George Kalamaras, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Laurence Klavan, Zane Kotker, Doug Lawson, Reb Livingston, Jonathan Lyons, Anne Marsella, Mark Maxwell, Jean McGarry, Daniel Mueller, Lance Olsen, Mary Overton, Cheryl Pallant, Jim Peterson, Holly Prado, Doug Rice, Peter Jay Shippy, Mark Smith-Soto, Laurel Snyder, Amy Bracken SParks, Richard Spilman, Laura-Gray Street, Dan Stryk, Elizabeth Swados, D.A. Taylor, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Lee Upton, Paul West, Christina Yu, and lots more. Photos from Burning Man by Mike Woolson round out the issue.