Welcome to Ascent!
Congratulations to Edith Pearlman!
Her book ~ Binocular Vision ~ was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award!
Three stories in her collection first appeared in Ascent.
- New Essays
- Death Room Etiquette ~ Josh Green
- But Who Am I? ~ Rose Rappoport Moss
- The Dead Lieutenant ~ J. Malcolm Garcia
- Sifting Through It ~ Eileen M. Cunniffe
- Uruguay ~ Joshua Doležal
- Those Summers, These Days ~ Sarah Wells
- If Wishing Could Make It So ~ Jim Dameron
- On Outlaw Excellence ~ Jaimy Gordon
- In Praise of the Obsessive Reader: An Exercise in Taxonomy ~ Harold Augenbraum
- Freedom 101 ~ Claudia Serea
- New Fiction
- Heart’s Desire ~ Judith Slater
- The Llama ~ Laura Ender
- No Less Afraid ~ Mark Brazaitis
- Turnstiles ~ Grant Tracey
- The Kites of Ni Shen Xiao ~ Randy F. Nelson
- Billy’s Ghost ~ Michael Pearce
- The Tao of Humiliation ~ Lee Upton
- The Marionette Theater ~ Mary Elizabeth Pope
- Throwing Leather ~ Brad Felver
- Arrivederci, Goodbye ~ Tatjana Soli
- New Poetry
- Summary ~ Scott Withiam
- The Wyoming Pagoda ~ Joan Colby
- Santo Subito ~ Anna Lowe Weber
- Shoppers ~ Paul Dickey
- Autumn, Six Months Later ~ Michael Pearce
- The Untoward ~ Donald Morrill
- Surface Tension ~ Cindy Stewart-Rinier
- In the Garden’s Tenth Year ~ Marsha McGregor
- Possibly a Ball Game ~ Brad Clompus
- Full Moon Rising ~ Robin Chapman