Issue 43: Fall 2018 is now live!

Dear Readers, Issue 43: Fall 2018 has finally arrived, and it brings with it an excellent array of pieces for your perusal. This issue's fiction section features an excerpt from Marianne Apostolides’s I can't get you out of my mind: A book of lies, sex, love, and Artificial Intelligence, “The Dementia Games” by Jennifer Batler, and “The Roads We Choose: A Social Media Mystery in Four Acts” by Mark Budman. In poetry, check out Rosebud Ben-Oni’s “Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation Inside a Simulation,” Casey Reiland’s “Ghazal for the Loss of a Housemate,” Stevie Edwards’s “On Want,” Yusuf Saadi’s “Child Sacrifice,” Lenea Grace’s “The accidentals,” Nolan Natasha Pike’s “Montreal,” Marilyn Bowering’s “Biscuit Factory, ” Kayla Czaga’s “FINNISH SCHOOLING” and “DEATH STARRING WINONA RYDER,” Jory Mickelson’s “Wilderness//Kingdom,” and Luther Hughes’s “Obsequy.” In this season's essays, Casey Plett explores the rhythm and grace in Miriam Toews, JoAnn Gometz discusses the value of nonfiction conferences for literary nonfiction writers, and Alicia Elliott analyzes truth, lies, and reality television. In interviews, Lisa Mullenneaux interviews Négar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover) and the pair discuss Djavadi's debut novel, Disoriental. This issue's reviews feature Margeaux Feldman on Catherine Fatima's Sludge Utopia, Mark Grenon on Jeff Latosik's Dreampad, and Dave Hurlow on Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success. Finally, the winners of our seventh annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize, judged by Zoe Whittall (fiction) and Kaveh Akbar (poetry) will be announced this Friday, November 23, at our annual Black Friday event. (We hope to see you there!) If you can't make it out to the event, make sure you check back in on Saturday, when the winning pieces will be posted. And so, without further ado, The Puritan presents its latest. We hope you enjoy this issue. All the best, The Editors