So the Story Goes : Twenty-Five Years of the

Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers.

John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University and former chair of the Writing Seminars. His books include American Hieroglyphics, The Mystery to a Solution, and Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge, all available from Johns Hopkins. Jean McGarry is chair of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Dream Date, Gallagher's Travels, Home at Last, The Very Rich Hours, and Airs of Providence,all available from Johns Hopkins.

Foreword

ix

John Barth

Preface

xi

From World Like a Knife (1991)

Ellen Akins

Her Book

1

(15)

From And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story (1987)

Steve Bartheleme

Zorro

16

(12)

From Drowned Moon (2001)

Glenn Blake

Marsh

28

(16)

From Remind Me to Murder You Later (1988)

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Thirty-six Miracles of Lyndon Johnson

44

(10)

From Fear of Blue Skies (1998)

Richard Burgin

Bodysurfing

54

(12)

From Wingtips (1999)

Avery Chenoweth

Powerman

66

(19)

From Da Vinci's Bicycle (1979)

Guy Davenport

A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg

85

(34)

From Cake (2003)

Tristan Davies

Counterfactuals

119

(4)

From Time to Go (1984)

Stephen Dixon

Time to Go

123

(15)

From How Aliens Think (1999)

Judith Grossman

``Rovera''

138

(12)

From What Goes without Saying (1996)

Josephine Jacobsen

On the Island

150

(15)

From I Am Dangerous (1996)

Greg Johnson

Hemingway's Cats

165

(22)

From Basepaths (1995)

Jerry Klinkowitz

Basepaths

187

(11)

From Safety Patrol (1988)

Michael Martone

The Safety Patrol

198

(17)

From Crazy Women (1985)

Jack Matthews

Haunted by Name Our Ignorant Lips

215

(20)

From Dream Date (2002)

Jean McGarry

The Last Time

235

(8)

From In the Air (1991)

Robert Nichols

Six Ways of Looking at Farming

243

(8)

From Lithuania (1990)

Joe Ashby Porter

West Baltimore

251

(12)

From Everything You've Heard Is True (1989)

Frances Sherwood

History

263

(15)

From The Book of Lost Fathers (2001)

Robley Wilson

Hard Times

278

(17)

Afterword

295

(4)

Jean McGarry

List of Contributors

299

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