Ploughshares Fall 1992 Guest-Edited by Tobias Wolff

by Tobias Wolff (Editor), Dan Chaon, Andre Dubus, Stuart Dybek, Mona Simpson

Overview

The Fall 1992 issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by Tobias Wolff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Acclaimed memoirist and novelist Tobias Wolff (This Boy's Life, Old School, In the Garden of North American Martyrs) compiles this fiction issue of Ploughshares. In Wolff's introduction to the issue, he says, "It goes without saying that another editor would have put together, from the same available manuscripts, a different issue. I can only hope, Dear Reader (Perfect Judge, Angel of Mercy, Shadow of Death), that your excitements coincide sufficiently with mine to allow you some of the pleasure and wonder I have felt, reading the pages to come." Featuring work from Dan Chaon, Andre Dubus, Stuart Dybek, Susan Power, Mona Simpson, Jessica Treadway, and nonfiction by Susan Bergman.

INTRODUCTION
Tobias Wolff

NONFICTION
"Imago," by Susan Bergman

FICTION
"Rex the King," by Mary Bush
"Fraternity," by Dan Chaon
"Cadet Barnes Learns the System," by George Cruys
"Woman on a Plane," by Andre Dubus
"A Confluence of Doors," by Stuart Dybek
"Grass" by Paul Griner
"An Introduction to Philosophy" by Susan Hubbard
"Kennedy's Head" by Robert Olmstead
"Moonwalk" by Susan Power
"Van Castle" by Mona Simpson
"OBST VW" by Sharon Solwitz
"Down in the Valley" by Jessica Treadway
"Po Lives on the Y" by Christopher Zenowich
"A Pat on the Cheek" by Vassilis Tsiamboussis, translated by Martin McKinsey

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016498874
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	08/15/1992
Series:	Ploughshares , #1823
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award - both for excellence in the short story - the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, and A Doctor's Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and other magazines and literary journals.

Hometown:

Northern California

Date of Birth:

June 19, 1945

Place of Birth:

Birmingham, Alabama

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1972; M.A., Stanford University, 1975