“Sometimes it’s hard to discern who’s selling sex and who’s just trying to wear as little fabric as possible in Havana’s oppressive heat.” —Julia Cooke, in “Amigos” (VQR, Spring 2013). Photo by Jason Florio.
“To the Twenty-Something Girl Who Winked” by Richard Fenwick
Craig Mod on book covers: “I take them all off, the covers. As soon as I’ve paid—swoosh! Gone! I don’t have the heart to throw them in the garbage, but I certainly don’t let them muddle my beautiful hardcover books.” From Spring 2013 VQR
“Live With It” by Valerie Nieman
“I was very lucky, because if I had been born, say, to a very well-educated family, say a family in New York, people who knew all about writing, the whole world of writing, and so on, I would have been totally diminished.” — Alice Munro, in Spring 2013 VQR
“Pin-Cushion” by Tiffany Chaney
“The Mapmaker’s Lament” by Stephen S. Power
“The Dance of Wind in Trees” by Susan Wingate
“Renoir, ‘The Luncheon of the Boating Party’” by James Toupin
“The Soul Fox” by David Mason
(Source: vqronline.org)