A press release from Mark Primoff of Conjunctions:

Gathering some of writing’s greatest contemporary masters and some of its most vital emerging voices, Conjunctions:59, Colloquy—the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College—offers an arcanum of writings on monsters and monstrosities, edited by Peter Straub, as well as stories and nonfiction about the act of reading, edited by Robert Coover and Conjunctions editor, novelist, and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. Colloquy features new fiction, essays, and poetry from Edie Meidav, China Miéville, John Crowley, Jonathan Lethem, Nathaniel Mackey, Peter Straub, Robert Kelly, Rae Armantrout, Lydia Davis, Robert Coover, and William H. Gass, as well as a major portfolio of previously unpublished correspondence by the legendary novelist William Gaddis.

“These fictions, poems, essays, letters, and pieces that defy genre definition—works by some of my favorite contemporary writers—draw on quite different linguistic approaches to quite different thematic visions, giving the issue an almost symphonic quality with unexpected harmonies abounding from page to page,” writes Morrow.

In addition to the writers mentioned above, Colloquy also features new work from Matt Bell, Jedediah Berry, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Michael Reid Busk, Arnaldo Calveyra, Ngoc Doan, Brian Evenson, Thalia Field, Peter Gizzi, Theodora Goss, Evelyn Hampton, Shelley Jackson, Alexandra Kleeman, Abigail Lang, Ted Mathys, James Morrow, Lance Olsen, Aurelie Sheehan, Cole Swensen, Arthur Sze, Sarah Tourjee, Keith Waldrop, and Rosmarie Waldrop.

Conjunctions is edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College.

To order a copy, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, P. O. Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at www.conjunctions.com.