March 1998

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How real history fits into the historical novel
By Thomas Fleming
The author / editor connection
By Eve Bunting
Poet to Poet
By James Applewhite
A conversation with Cynthia Ozick
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
An idea is only the bait
By Madonna Dries Christensen
Departments
Roving editor
From the editor
Letters to the editor
The rostrum
The how-to's of how-to's
By Linda Slater
They say
Off the cuff
Facing up to time
By Elizabeth Yates
Where to sell manuscripts
Poetry: General Magazines
Little, Literary, and College Magazines: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
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