Featuring interviews with poet Neil Aitken (The Lost Country of Sight), author Jane Austen (Northhanger Abbey), reviews of contemporary fiction and poetry, and of course a sterling collection of intelligent, pee-your-pants funny, and dab-at-your-eyes-moving stories and poems from both first-time and well-established writers of national and international backgrounds, including Fred Skolnik, Lenore Wilson, Dave Barrett, Jorge Sanchez, Lisa Markowitz, and many others.
From the Austen interview:
PR: What are your feelings on matrimony? Do you believe marriage is more about security or insecurity?
JANE AUSTEN: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. Despite this, I continue to remain single and I do believe that union is more about insecurity. I feel that people turn to marriage as some sort of salvation from the drub and rut. And too I am quite sad about the state of marriage these days, particularly the divorce rate. I think it is caused by all the distractions you have, computers, television, games. This world seems to have lost all its romance, I mean when was the last time any of you received a love letter carefully written in calligraphy with a quill pin? When was the last time you stared longingly out the window? A girl did this, you know. For years and years before marriage. That is a great investment one does not let go of so easily. Much more than, say, a night in Vegas. Two weeks of love. These things are passing fancies, not bone deep, not marrow.
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