The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
MAR 2008
Fiction
From Correction of Drift, a novel in stories
by Pamela RyderFiction
Investigators believe that the kidnappers are professionals interested only in extortion and not in unnecessarily harming the boy.
Excerpts from a novel in progress
by Diane WilliamsFiction
My Pudenda. A Stubborn Man. Poor Me! Lewdness Suggested. How the Sight Affects Me. A Ground-Floor Dulling Room.
Dear Hunting
by Barbara HenningFiction
Lenore was killed by an accidental bullet. She walked right into the woods. Her thighs were heavy. Her red peddle pushers disappeared like two little flags between the trees.
The Western Cannon
by Andrew FarkasFiction
I ain’t gonna lie to ya. I first got interested in cannons back when I was in college. Back at Nusquam University. The Fighting Nuskies. (What’s a Nusky? What isn’t?)
Excerpts from "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
by William H. GassFiction
OO-OOO-OO my Mister Handsome how could you?
