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Erin McGraw
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The Autumn 2000 issue features paintings by Kevin King, essays by Erin McGraw and Beth Simon, stories by Terry Bain and Gerald Shapiro, and poems by Sidney Wade, Linda Pastan, Mark Doty, and Billy Collins, as well as stunning work by many others.

To order a copy of the Autumn 2000 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 13.3.


Contents
Volume 13, Number 3 / Autumn 2000

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “Adventures of a Snooty House Ad,” Editor’s Pages, 343
   Erin McGraw, “True Believer,” 373
    Thomas Van Nortwick, “Prague Symphony,” 412
    Beth Simon, “Tierra del Fuego,” 445
    Farrell O’Gorman, “South to Alaska,” 455

FICTION
    Terry Bain, “Pediatrics,” 349
    Robert Fagan, “Census,” 389
    Gerald Shapiro, “Bernard, the Mummy,” 427
    Lisa Lieberman, “Julia,” 475

POETRY
    Dick Allen, “The Father Suite” and “Some Man I Knew,” 365
    Jennifer Franklin, “Harmony in Red,” 386
    Sidney Wade, “Dancing at the Bin Bir,” 388
    Linda Pastan, “Penultimate Things” and “Threshold,” 399
    Mark Doty, “Source,” 409
    Dean Jameson, “Just Wondering,” “An Architectural Caprice,” and “The New         House,” 421
    James Tate, “September” and “An Afternoon Stroll,” 425
    Meg Kearney, “Prologue to Love: Chopin’s Waltz in A Minor, Op.34,
        No. 2
,” 443
    Sandra Kohler, “Sweet” and “The Game,” 452
    Marting Lammon, “Lost Lesson from Children’s Class in Shushin,” 454
    Billy Collins, “Report from Sicily” and “By a Swimming Pool in Syracusa,” 472
    George Looney, “Storms That Laugh Bitter and Nostalgic,” 474

GRAPHICS
    Kevin King, Paintings, 401