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The whole thing was a public-relations nightmare for the CIA, which was forced to deny ordering over eighty kiloliters of beer delivered to Martyr’s Park in downtown Ottawa. Mulroney’ s men confiscated all our documents, and then they began killing us. Vu was thrown down an ice crevasse, Scotty was…

“Wouldn’cha know he missed the moon,” Vu said, “by about a heck of a lot, eh.”

“Make you now an around turn,” I said to Jacques. “U-turn.”

“Oui,” he said. “L’espace ressemble à l’uterin. L’acte du creation est tres evident. ”

ALEKSANDAR HEMON: I used to write a lot for magazines and radio in Sarajevo, which taught me that writing is evanescent: magazines are thrown away, and radio moments exist briefly and then they perish. That experience gave me a different take on rejection, inasmuch as it prevented me from taking my…

RICHARD FORD : I don't usually like stories about other people's early failures and rejections. They all sound so much the dreary same, and of course they weren’t successful failures or we wouldn't be hearing much about them. Bur I do love my own. I like to think back from a point of present calm t…

KlM EDWARDS: I did my graduate work in Iowa City. When l finished, my husband and I left for teaching jobs on the rural east coast of Malaysia, worlds away. Against the dazzling backdrop of the South China Sea, life seemed very quiet-no talk of writing, no other writers, no visible ways in which bo…