Over the last few weeks, I’ve been hanging out in the NDQ archives and finding some intriguing things to read over lunch or in the gaps in my day.

This morning, I cued up issue 51.2 from Spring 1983. It’s a pretty spectacular issue with a wide range of contributions and contributors. If you can’t find something in it that you like, you’re probably should give up spending time in the NDQ archives. (Wait! Don’t do that… just look at another issue!).

Here’s my reading list for the weekend:

Rodney Nelson, narrative essay (or maybe it’s a story?) “Immediate Earth.”

Greg Kuzma’s poem “Where I Went Bad.” 

Lynn Bryce’s article “Silent Confluence: Eastern and Western Themes in the Adams’ Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery,” intrigued the historian in me and is especially poignant especially when juxtaposed to his comic novel Esther.

Karen Alpha’s story “Relating,” 

As a bonus there’s an excerpt from J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K titled, “Michael K in the Camp.” Coetzee’s novel won the Booker Prize that year and stands as one of his most important works.

For more from the archive, be sure to check out the latest anthology of NDQ writing: NDQ@90, which you can download for free here.

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