Publisher’s Note: Look Past First Impressions
By Will Hearst
One Coyote
By Keenan Norris • Illustrations by James Ransome
THE BILLION-DOLLAR COMPOSER
By Tim Greiving
Poetry: “Not Without”
By Forrest Gander
Having His Cake and Eating It, Too
By Jessica Zack
Waiting to Call Home
By Cirrus Wood
Painting the Trees and the Forests
Written and Illustrated by Obi Kaufmann
Postcards from the Future
Will Hearst in conversation with Kevin Kelly
Special Section: Noir
Introduction
By David L. Ulin
Last Call for Gumshoes
By Phil Bronstein
Death Becomes Them
By Denise Hamilton
The Journey of the AntiHero
By David L. Ulin
The Port of Missing Women
By Judith Freeman • Illustrations by Mark Smith
The Plagues
By Steph Cha • Illustrations by David Palumbo
When Films Were Kings
By John J. Healey
California Schemin’
By Eddie Muller
Prison Made Me a Screenwriter!
By Philippe Garnier
Plus An Original Comic Book: “The Old Silo”
Searching for Mary Austin
By Joy Lanzendorfer • Photos by Walter Feller
Alta Picks: Seek and You Shall Find
The Best Bad Things
By Terry McDonell
Museum on The Edge
By Bridget Quinn
“Time Invents Us”
By Anita Felicelli • Illustrations by Victor Juhasz
Poetry: “Aunt Jemima is the Picture of the American Dream” • “In Case You Forgot, I Am Not Your Negro” (for James Baldwin) • “Daughter” • “Low & Leaving”
By Anastacia-Reneé
In a Galaxy Closer to Home
By Ed Leibowitz
