{"product_id":"2940149428328","title":"Ploughshares Spring 2014 Guest-Edited by Jean Thompson","description":"The Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Jean Thompson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean Thompson (The Year We Left Home) guest-edits this issue of prose and poetry. As she writes in her introduction, \"The thing that gives me hope for the enterprise of writing is the incredible variety and vigor of the terrain.\"  With poets ranging from Erin Belieu to the Uruguayan Tatiana Orono, and stories that move from the eerie (Peter Rock's dreamlike story of a mysterious stalker, \"Go-Between\") to the comic (Elizabeth McCracken's story \"Hungry,\" about an overweight young girl) to the tragic (Dan Chaon's \"What Happened to Us,\" about a family transformed by fostering a disturbed child), Thompson's issue celebrates writers as they “grapple or dance with the world we live in, reflect or distort it, embrace or escape it.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe issue also features Jesse Lee Kercheval's Plan B essay about learning to play the accordion (\"Welcome to Hell\"), and an exploration of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities by John Domini. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eJean Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITOR PROFILE\u003cbr\u003eLadette Randolph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Rink Girl,\" by Mark Brazaitis\u003cbr\u003e\"What Happened to Us,\" by Dan Chaon\u003cbr\u003e\"The Meat Place,\" by Kim Chinquee\u003cbr\u003e\"The Sky in the Glass-Topped Table,\" by Elizabeth Evans\u003cbr\u003e\"Sublimation,\" by Jennifer Haigh\u003cbr\u003e\"A Christmas Letter,\" by Robert Hellenga\u003cbr\u003e\"Hungry,\" by Elizabeth McCracken\u003cbr\u003e\"Go-Between,\" by Peter Rock\u003cbr\u003e\"Seizure,\" by Donna Trump\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nature Walk,\" by Stephen Dau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY by\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErin Belieu\u003cbr\u003eMalachi Black\u003cbr\u003eJae Choi\u003cbr\u003eAlice Derry\u003cbr\u003eDenise Duhamel\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Morgan Frank\u003cbr\u003eRick Hilles\u003cbr\u003eJames Kimbrell\u003cbr\u003eKent Leatham\u003cbr\u003eKaryna McGlynn\u003cbr\u003eCampbell McGrath\u003cbr\u003eSarah Rose Nordgren\u003cbr\u003eTatiana Oroño \u003cbr\u003eBen Purkert\u003cbr\u003eTony Sanders\u003cbr\u003eJacob Sunderlin\u003cbr\u003eRonald Wallace\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Wells\u003cbr\u003eMike White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Welcome to Hell,\" a Plan B essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval \u003cbr\u003e\"Chessboard \u0026amp; Cornucopia: Forty Years of Invisible Cities,\" a Look2 essay on Italo Calvino by John Domini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOSTSCRIPTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Hoffman Prize for Fiction Winner Elise Juska","brand":"Ploughshares","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149039976688,"sku":"2940149428328","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149428328_p0.jpg?v=1764005691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149428328","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}