Narrative Magazine Winter Issue 2011

The best issue ever from NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM, including an exclusive excerpt from Carol Edgarian's new novel, Three Stages of Amazement; an iStory by Sherman Alexie; a great new novella by Ann Packer; and Narrative Prize-winner Anthony Marra's newest short story. Plus Tobias Wolff on Paul Bowles; a Lynn Freed travel essay; Jayne Anne Phillips on legendary editor Sam Lawrence; Lynn Sharon Schwartz on intimacy and anger; Kate Moses commemorating Diane Middlebrook; poetry by Narrative newcomer Kate Waldman, and much, much more. If you buy and read only one collection this year, this is the one.