Issue 146

Summer & Fall 2014

  • Issue 146 opens with Brian Bouldrey's beautiful and devastating video essay "Dead Christ." Hans Holbein’s painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (a detail of which also serves as the issue’s cover art) acts as a gateway for Bouldrey to explore death and grief, pain and suffering, love and hope. “You out there, watching with me, hear me in the dark, and remind me I’m alive,” Bouldrey says.

    If there’s a unifying theme for Issue 146 it’s that pulsing desire to be heard in the dark. The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in this issue are provocative and gut-wrenching, illuminating the trappings of existence in unique ways. Mystery, pain, grief, joy, love, hope abound.

    Wherever you’re reading Issue 146, whether in bed or beside a stranger on the train, when you’re finished and you've exhaled, allow whoever’s near to wonder where you’ve been and how you’ve changed—come alive—after TriQuarterly.

    Cheers,
    Adrienne Gunn
    Managing Editor: Adrienne Gunn
    Assistant Managing Editor: Noelle Havens
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Film Editor: John Bresland
    Fiction Editors: Carrie Muehle, Dan Schuld, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editor: Karen Zemanick
    Poetry Editor: C. Russell Price
    Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
    Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
    Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
    Technical Advisors: Alex Miner, Rodolfo Vieira, Nick Gertonson
    Undergraduate Intern: Brooke Wanser


    Staff: Ahsan Awan, Rebecca Bald, Jen Companik, Jim Davis, Jennifer Deeter, JL Deher-Lesaint, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Jeshua Enriquez, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Ish Harris-Wolff, Beth Herbert, Alex Higley, Martha Holloway, Barbara Tsai Jones, Katharine Kruse, Jen Lawrence, Adam Lizakowski, Robin Morrissey, Marina Mularz, Troy Parks, Amber Peckham, Miyako Pleines, Lydia Pudzianowski, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Paula Root, Caitlin Sellnow, Michi Smith, Megan Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Ted Wesenberg, Carol Zsolnay

Image from Dead Christ

Fiction Alix Ohlin Fiction Alix Ohlin

Taxonomy

tax·on·o·my noun \tak-ˈsä-nə-mē\ : the system or process of classifying the way in which different living things are related by putting them in groups

Ring-tailed Lemurs (Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Primates; Family: Lemuridae; Genus: Lemur; Species: L. catta)

On the way to Lancaster, he stops to buy his daughter a gift.

It’s a residual habit from long-ago business trips, though Meredith is both far away and past such things.

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Fiction Shelly Oria Fiction Shelly Oria

The Disneyland of Albany

Avner had woken up too late. Only when he walked over to get the coffee going, his electric toothbrush humming along—how Netta used to hate that—and caught a glimpse of the clock on the kitchen counter did he realize he’d miscalculated. How had that happened?

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Fiction Katherine Karlin Fiction Katherine Karlin

The Death Poll

It has a been a miserable summer, the worst, the summer that began with the Boston bombing, the summer three girls were discovered chained to a radiator in a rust belt house of horrors, the summer of the George Zimmerman trial. For weeks his smug, fat face has popped up on every Internet site, like one of those inflatable clowns you can’t flatten.

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Fiction Molly Reid Fiction Molly Reid

Apocalypso

The fog might be lighter today. I tell Sonia this, and she smiles. It might, she says, and pours more coffee, that which resembles coffee, as the ocean resembles the ocean—briny expanse, crashing waves. Dirty peach foam, vaguely magenta in the deep end.

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Fiction Ray Daniels Fiction Ray Daniels

Walking

I walk now. I walk along the bus route now. Some days I trail a block behind the red stream of the bus’s taillights the whole way, some days I never see the bus at all or any other moving vehicle. Or person. I see animals, occasionally: rats, squirrels.

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Fiction Lily King Fiction Lily King

Excerpts from Euphoria

Lily King's fourth novel, Euphoria, is told from the point of view of Andrew Bankson, an English anthropologist doing fieldwork up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Isolated, in despair about his work, and suicidal, he crosses paths with the only other anthropologists in the country, the newly famous and controversial Nell Stone and her husband, Fenwick, who are in want of a new tribe.

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