Ploughshares Spring 1986 Guest-Edited by Leonard Michaels

by Leonard Michaels (Editor), Rosellen Brown, Sue Miller, Jean-paul Sartre, Gary Soto

Overview

The Spring 1986 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Leonard Michaels. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"The Millionaire," by Thomas McGuane
"Beautiful," by C. E. Poverman
"The Gingko Tree," by Roger Salloch
"The Scientific Method," by Robert Cohen
"Neighborhood," by Danny Romero
"All This," by Rosellen Brown
"What Ernest Says," by Sue Miller
"Algot's Bird," by Rhoda Huffey
"New Dresses," by Mary Ward Brown
"Dogs," by Mary Peterson

NONFICTION
"Study for Sleep," by Frances Lerner
"Against Joie de Vivre," by Phillip Lopate
Excerpt from The Family Idiot, Gustave Flaubert, by Jean-Paul Sartre & Carol Cosman
"Trailed By The Black Dog," by Jeff Hush
"The Secret Sharer," by David Reid
"Letter to Brenda Hillman," by Louise Gluck
"Today and Destiny: The Judgement of Moses Hess," by Oscar Pemantle
"Bresh," by Edgar Poma
"What's A Story?" by Leonard Michaels

POETRY
"Scott on Flight 559," by Brenda Hillman
"Confession to Mrs. Robert L. Snow," by Gary Soto
"The Fourth of July," by August Kleinzahler

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148561217
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	04/01/1986
Series:	Ploughshares , #122
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	374 KB

About the Author

Leonard Michaels is a renowned novelist, short story writer and essayist, best known for his novel, The Men's Club, which centered on a group of men in the 70's, talking about their wives and lovers, some say in an attempt to raise consciousness. It was nominated by The National Book Critics Circle as the best novel of 1981 and was later adapted into a film in 1986.
Throughout his career, Michaels received many honors including, two Quill Awards, the O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Prize, as well as awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His many novels and short story collections include Going Places (1969), I Would Have Saved Them if I Could (1975), Silvia (1992), Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels 1961-1995 (1999), and A Girl With a Monkey, which was named the 2000 best fiction title by the Los Angeles Times. His book, To Feel These Things (1993), is a collection of nonfiction essays. Michaels taught at the University of California Davis briefly until 1969 when he began his 25-year tenure as an English professor at U.C. Berkeley.