In this excerpt from Clancy Martin's novella, "Travels in Central America", the husband of an adulterous woman unwittingly invites her lover to spend a week visiting the family's home.
In his introduction, Tim Small, editor of The Milan Review and guest editor of the issue, writes: "Every time I read something by Clancy I feel as if I'm a little more grown-up. I feel as if I've had access to a sensibility that, while being different from mine - or maybe precisely because of it - allows me to relate to a whole new way of being a person, which is, in my mind, exactly what literature should do."
About Recommended Reading:
Great authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, publishes one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. In this age of distraction, we uncover writing that's worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we help give great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.
About the Guest Editor:
The Milan Review is an independent publishing house based in Milan, Italy which publishes a bit of everything: a semi-annual literary journal, fiction and non-fiction, comics and photobooks and zines and anything that might tickle our fancy. If it doesn't sound too pretentious, The Milan Review aims to connect Italian and American contemporary culture, both in literary and visual terms. Which means: some of our books will be in Italian, and some will be in English. The semi-annual litmag, for example, is in English. We try and make sure that all our books will be very pretty objects and will never cost too much money and will never be printed in large print runs.
About the Author:
Clancy Martin is the only writer to have been featured in all three issues of The Milan Review, because we love him. He is the author of the novel HOW TO SELL (FSG, 2009), which was absolutely mind-blowing. He was a 2011-2012 Guggenheim Fellow, and is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Milan Review, Ethics, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, GQ, Esquire, Details, Bookforum, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals, and has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Genre: Literary Fiction
In his introduction, Tim Small, editor of The Milan Review and guest editor of the issue, writes: "Every time I read something by Clancy I feel as if I'm a little more grown-up. I feel as if I've had access to a sensibility that, while being different from mine - or maybe precisely because of it - allows me to relate to a whole new way of being a person, which is, in my mind, exactly what literature should do."
About Recommended Reading:
Great authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, publishes one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. In this age of distraction, we uncover writing that's worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we help give great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.
About the Guest Editor:
The Milan Review is an independent publishing house based in Milan, Italy which publishes a bit of everything: a semi-annual literary journal, fiction and non-fiction, comics and photobooks and zines and anything that might tickle our fancy. If it doesn't sound too pretentious, The Milan Review aims to connect Italian and American contemporary culture, both in literary and visual terms. Which means: some of our books will be in Italian, and some will be in English. The semi-annual litmag, for example, is in English. We try and make sure that all our books will be very pretty objects and will never cost too much money and will never be printed in large print runs.
About the Author:
Clancy Martin is the only writer to have been featured in all three issues of The Milan Review, because we love him. He is the author of the novel HOW TO SELL (FSG, 2009), which was absolutely mind-blowing. He was a 2011-2012 Guggenheim Fellow, and is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Milan Review, Ethics, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, GQ, Esquire, Details, Bookforum, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals, and has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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