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The Missouri Review
Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
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31:3 Fall 2008
Featuring work by: Carl Adamshick, Nat Akin, Maury Feinsilber, Charles Green, Alison B. Hart, Peter Levine, William Lychack, Andy Mozina, Todd James Pierce, Jennifer Richter, Brandon Schrand, and Jillian Weise.
With an interview with Chuck Klosterman.
Web Features
Poem of the Week
December 3, 2008
This week we're proud to feature "Why Some Girls Love Horses" by Paisley Rekdal. The poem first appeared in TMR 31:2. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000 and Vintage, 2002), and three books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press, 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press, 2002) and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).
From Our Archives
Medical
Various philosophies of mind frequently claim that the mental supervenes on the physical; or, in other words, that there is no change in our mental state without a corresponding change in biology. Sheku, the protagonist of William McCauley's story "Mister Henry's Trousers," illustrates this principle in extremis. In fact, Sheku's elephantiasis-infected testicles could be posited as the real protagonists of the story, for they are among only a small handful of explanations for the tragic overreaching with which Sheku conducts himself.
From our Blog
What’s the Difference?
January 6th, 2009 by Evelyn Somers
Six days into January, people are still saying “Happy New Year” and expressing hope/doubt/nervousness/fear/anticipation about what will happen in this next calendar year. Having recently had an intense, out-of-time experience with a dying relative, I’d been thinking already . . .
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Poetry is a kaleidoscope
December 30th, 2008 by The Missouri Review
So, I am writing this post as an ode to my lovely fellow poetry readers at TMR. I have never been a part of an academic group so nerdy and so much fun in my entire life.
Before joining the poetry team at TMR I had all of these worries about my ability to analyze [...]
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Peden Prize Reading
On October 20th, 2008, The Missouri Review presented our annual Peden Prize to Molly McNett, whose story "Quichè Lessons" appeared in our summer 2007 issue. As part of the evening, Molly read an abridged version of her story. We're happy to present on this podcast our recording of that reading, introduced by Associate Editor Evelyn Somers.
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