Issue 149

Winter & Spring 2016

  • With Issue 149 we welcome our new video editor, Kristen Radtke, who introduces a trio of videos exploring the spaces between public and private. In these pieces, homes and lives are both haunted and haunting, as domestic, artistic, and personal histories are reviewed, interrogated, and restored. José Orduña details the intimate history of a house, yet denies all claims to either dwelling or memories; Margaret Singer and Max Freeman witness Steve Martin's attempt to revive an artist's reputation after years spent in his partner's shadow; and Sarah Viren meditates on the conception, birth, and existence of a child, and points along the continuum.

    The poetry, fiction, and nonfiction here also move between past and present, charting journeys both actual and emotional. From Elliot Ackerman's expat in Istanbul to Monica Sok's deracinated daughter visiting Angkor Wat, to Karen Brown's refuge for tired travelers, to Craig Bernardini's mother's sacrifice in Argentina, you'll find characters seeking to restablish and redefine family and home.

    In her introduction, Kristen refers to "the exact point of greatest anticipation and possibility." It is at this point that we present this issue and invite you to join the many journeys here.

    Cheers,
    Noelle Havens



    Managing Editor: Noelle Havens
    Assistant Managing Editor: Dane Hamann
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Film Editor: Kristen Radtke
    Fiction Editors: Adrienne Gunn, Carrie Muehle, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editor: Martha Holloway
    Poetry Editor: Dane Hamann
    Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
    Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
    Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
    Technical Advisors: Alex Miner, Rodolfo Vieira, Nick Gertonson

    Staff: Ahsan Awan, Emily Barton, Jen Companik, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Jeshua Enriquez, Dan Fliegel, Andrea Garcia, Ish Harris-Wolff, Katie Hartsock, Alex Higley, Barbara Tsai Jones, Katharine Kruse, Jen Lawrence, Adam Lizakowski, Robin Morrissey, Marina Mularz, Troy Parks, Lydia Pudzianowski, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Paula Root, Caitlin Sellnow, Michi Smith, Megan Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Ted Wesenberg

Image from This is Not My Home

Fiction Peter Orner Fiction Peter Orner

Pies

It had begun to rain. She’d gone with him to visit his son and the son’s girlfriend. He’d wanted her to meet his son. It was late.

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Fiction Karen Brown Fiction Karen Brown

Amnesiacs

She was in charge of preparing the beds for the new arrivals. Her arms were full of the sheets, bright white in the sun’s glare off the water. It was May, and the windows had been thrown open, and the air whipped up the curtains, covered the grand old furniture with salt.

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Fiction Abby Geni Fiction Abby Geni

Childish

I have fallen in love with a willow tree. I first saw it a week ago, on a golden, dusty afternoon. You and I were out for our daily constitutional. You move with a walker these days, tennis balls affixed to the bottom.

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Fiction Leigh Camacho Rourks Fiction Leigh Camacho Rourks

Shallowing

Caro swung the muzzle of the shotgun up and trained the barrel on a dove. From the doorway of the sagging porch, she could see several pairs in trees on both sides of the bayou, but she kept her focus tight. She didn’t pull the trigger.

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Essay Kristen Radtke Essay Kristen Radtke

Haunted Lives: Three Video Essays

The three essays that make up TriQuarterly’s winter/spring video essay suite are concerned with the liminal space between public and private, and, perhaps most interestingly, each employ the form to evoke lives—and homes—that are in some way haunted.

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Nonfiction Margot Livesey Nonfiction Margot Livesey

Gustave and Emma

Artists: All hoaxers.

—Flaubert, Dictionnaire des idées recues.

For me a book has always only been a way of living in some particular milieu. That is what explains my hesitations, my anguish and my slowness.

—Flaubert, letter to Mlle. Leroyer de Chantepie, December 26, 1858

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