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With this issue The Reader is launched into the American market, distributed by Chicago University Press. Great American writers, past and present, are therefore the focus of this issue, and the subjects of some dynamic and controversial writing. Jane Davis declares "this is an editorial unfashionably in praise of Americans and dreams". Issue 19 features established names such as:

John Carey from 'What good are the arts?':

Literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind.

Erica Wagner reviews 'The Great Bridge' by David McCullough:

To read 'The Great Bridge' is to be reminded that dreams can be spun into life just as wire is looped over a span.

Clark Blaise remembers a powerfully influential teacher:

...dramatising the multifarious adventures of the human heart...

Issue 19 is bursting with new poetry, fiction, essays, reviews and recommendations, as well as regular features unique to The Reader Magazine, Reading Lives and Learning Curve - there is truly nothing else like it on either the English or American markets.

Contents

editorial

Jane Davis - O Pioneers!

new poetry

Peter Robinson
Andrew Mayne
Alison Brackenbury
Martyn Halsall
Pauline Suett-Barbieri
Gale Lockhart Griffin

fiction

Tim Keane - Gods
Azmeena Ladha - Goodbye, Wallpaper

essays and interviews

Erica Wagner - The Great Bridge
Julie Mars - talks to Ann Stapleton
Michael Schmidt - Enter America: Aphra Behn
John Carey - Feeding the Mind
Chris Routledge - American Literature and the Declaration of Independence
Irralie Doel - Re-Piecing Memory: Black American Women Writers

learning curve

Neil Curry - For Years After: Anthony Hecht ‘More Light! More Light!’
Adam Piette’s - Practice of Poetry: Accent and Mouthed Words in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Originally’
Ask the Reader - Do We Need History to Read Literature?

reviews

Ann Stapleton - Julie Mars, A Month of Sundays
Bel Mooney - Beat Poets ed. Carmela Ciuaru and Kevin Young
John Scrivener - John Haffenden, William Empson, Vol 1: Among the Mandarins

recommendations

Jacob Polley - Penguin’s Contemporary American Poetry
Lawrence Weschler - Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Kate McDonnell - Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Claude Taylor - John Franklin Bardin, The Deadly Percheron
Jan Goosey - Anne Bradstreet

reading lives

Clarke Blaise - No Names Please
John Welch - Life’s Blood

the back end

Enid Stubin - Our Spy in NY
Cassandra Crossword
Buck’s Quiz
Contributors
Quiz and Puzzle Answers
James Bainbridge - Potted Crabbe
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