June 1997

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Features
Blah, blah, blah - then the curtain falls
By Kent R. Brown
A conversation with David Baldacci
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Poet to poet
By James Applewhite
Whose language is it?
From food processor to word processor
By Susan Kelly
Emotion in the short story
By Isobel Stewart
Departments
They say
Roving editor
Off the cuff
How to crack The New Yorker
By Lucia Nevai
Letters to the editor
From the editor
The rostrum
Serendipity and the writer
By C.J. Newton
Where to sell manuscripts
Magazine markets: Lifestyle; Family & Parenting; Women's;
Men's; Home & Garden; Food & Wine; Hobbies & Crafts, Collecting
The writer's library
Prize offers
Market newsletter
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