WLT Book Reviews | January 2013

• Editor's Note
• Alfred Hitchcock, Creator and Creation Fictionalizing the “Master of Suspense”

2012 Neustadt Prize Laureate Rohinton Mistry

• SPEECH: “The Road from There to Here,” Rohinton Mistry
• ESSAY: “Rohinton Mistry’s Omniscient Gaze,” Samrat Upadhyay
• WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Rohinton Mistry’s Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech
• SUMMARY: About the 2012 Neustadt Festival
• ESSAY: “Lend Me Your Light,” Rohinton Mistry and the Art of Storytelling, Beena Kamlani
• ESSAY: Painting the Deeply Personal on Vast Political Landscapes: Rohinton Mistry’s India, Sudha Bhuchar

5 Poetry Trails

• INTRO: “Finding Poetry Under the Open Sky,” Pattiann Rogers
• “The William Stafford Path Lake Oswego, Oregon,” Kim Stafford
• “Poetry Trail in Greenway Meadows Princeton, New Jersey,” Scott McVay
• “The Milwaukee County Zoo Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” Pattiann Rogers
• “Herman Hill Park Water Center Wichita, Kansas,” Albert Goldbarth
• “Oaken Transformations Brighton, Michigan,” Susan Blackwell Ramsey
• WEB EXCLUSIVE PHOTO GALLERY: Poetry Trails: 28 Photos

Essays

• “The Weather of Who We Are An Intimate Essay on the Weather, the Self, and Australianness,” Mark Tredinnick
• “The Immediacy of Influence,” Adam Z. Levy
• “A New Refuge for Haitian Writers,” Deji Olukotun

Poetry

• “Pavane; or, A Mouthful of Bright Blue Prayers,” Mark Tredinnick
• Two Poems by Lauren Camp
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Two Poems, Lauren Camp

Fiction

• “The Speech Therapist,” Cyril Dabydeen
• “Renters” by Peter Orner
• WEB EXCLUSIVE “99%” by Kim Kyŏnguk

Interviews

• A Brief Conversation with Kim Kyŏnguk

In Every Issue

• Editor’s Pick: In Beauty Bright by Gerald Stern
• City Profile: Perth, Australia—Intensely Beautiful, Often Overlooked
• What to Read Now: Testimonial Narratives
• New Books: Journeys
• Outpost: A City Lined with Literature—Porto, Portugal