Issue One

August 2009

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to The Collagist!
Matt Bell

Maintenance Window
Chris Bachelder

I'm Wide
Gordon Lish

Excerpt from The Big Book of Forgotten Lunatics, Volume 1
Kevin Wilson

On the Wheel, We Decided Not to Give Them Faces, and I Was There for the Team
Kim Chinquee

Mongolia, New York, Prague, Krakow
Matthew Salesses

Ray of the Star
Laird Hunt

from NANOPEDIA: THE SMALLEST AMERICAN REFERENCE
Charles Jensen

Trying to Start the Van and Watching the Bears: Big Bay, Michigan
Christina Kallery

Self Portrait as the Burning Plains of Eastern Oregon, Autumn Scene as Lullaby, Autumn Songs in Four Variations, In Defense of Small Towns and The Boy with the Fiddle in a Crowded Square
Oliver de la Paz

Twisting the Story Into Its Original Twisted Form
David McLendon

Assembloir: That Which Is True of Others Is True of Me
Ander Monson

Fugue State, by Brian Evenson
Ryan Call

You: or The Invention of Memory, by Jonathan Baumbach  
Anna Clark

The Other City, by Michal Ajvaz - translated by Gerald Turner
John Madera

Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir, by Terry Galloway
Dawn Raffel