8vo. Illustrated softcover with self-flaps; bottom (black) portion of cover

8vo. Illustrated softcover with self-flaps; bottom (black) portion of cover made with heat-sensitive disappearing ink. 271 clean, unmarked pages. Cover design and b & w illustrations by Jordan Crane. Color illustrations ("1, 000 Lunch Bags") by Robert Barnes. ~ Book is near fine, with some rubbing on the top/bottom edges of the flap folds. ~~ This quarterly issue contains "tremendous new stories from Steven Millhauser ["Phantoms"] and Roddy Doyle ["Local"]; an epic, genre-shattering novella from Hilton Als ["His Sister, Her Monologue"]; and a really excellent special section on Norway's finest writers."-editors. Theater critic Hilton Als's story is only the second piece of fiction he has published (the first was in 1979). Also contains a short story by Patrick Crerand ["The Glory of Keys"]. The Norwegian author contributors include John Erik Riley and Mikkel Bugge [Introduction], Hans Herbjornsrud, Johan Harstad, Laila Stien, Roy Jacobsen, Tor Ulven, Ingvar Ambjornsen, Gunnhild Oyehaug, Frode Grytten, Per Petterson, and Flamme Forlag. with an "earlyh look at Citrus Country (exerpt) by John Brandom stuck into the rear flap.