
The Best of Witness 1987-2004
Michigan State University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
367 pages
978-0-87013-829-4 (ISBN)
Description
A special issue featuring the "best of writers": Witness is a literary magazine that, over the course of its twenty years of publication, has earned a reputation as "the writer's literary journal." It publishes, with very little fanfare and lots of word-of- mouth recommendation, the very best writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
This special issue, The Best of Witness, 1987-2004 is now in book form, and contains the best pieces that appeared in the journal from 1987 until 2004 as chosen by editor Peter Stine.
Contributors include Robert Bly, Stuart Dybek, Barry Lopez, Thomas Lynch, Joyce Carol Oates, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, among others.
This special issue, The Best of Witness, 1987-2004 is now in book form, and contains the best pieces that appeared in the journal from 1987 until 2004 as chosen by editor Peter Stine.
Contributors include Robert Bly, Stuart Dybek, Barry Lopez, Thomas Lynch, Joyce Carol Oates, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, among others.
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Edition
New
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-829-4 (9780870138294)
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Persons
Peter Stine is the founding editor of Witness. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Boulevard, The Threepenny Review, The New York Times, Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views, and elsewhere. Doug Hagley worked with Witness for 20 years, ending as senior editor. He was assistant editor of the Journal Caliban, and is currently senior consulting editor for Boulevard and the designer of Absinthe: New European Writing.