We’re back in South America and the Spanish language, this time with translator Roy Kesey. Kesey’s latest books are the short story collection Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books 2013) and the novel Pacazo (Dzanc Books 2011/Jonathan Cape 2012). His translation of Pola...
??? The waters are calmer on the other side of the island, down that hill toward all the resorts. This is the windy side, an untouched beachfront. You can see the whitecaps for miles. The waves are as violent as they are stunning though—you should know these...
Founding Editor-in-Chief Born and raised in Washington, DC, Andrew Gifford is the founder and director of the Santa Fe Writers Project and the author of the memoir We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford’s Ice Cream Empire. Managing Editor Monica Prince is the...
??? Avenged Sevenfold It’s not my kind of music, not anymore. But it fit the harsh, ringing time of my life when all I wanted was something loud enough to drown out my own mind. It fit the boy who slouched against a wall, his legs long and spread out as if to...
“I’ll see you soon,” I said. A heartbeat. “Let’s hope not,” said Doctor Omera Sharpe. He smiled even though my throat had closed up and my eyes were filling with tears. “I mean, we don’t want any more accidents, do we? We don’t want you...
