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This unpublished story is about a man having a dream with a tapeworm emerging from his mouth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a large illustrated section by Maurice Henry on Palindromes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This story is written as a stream of consciousness and includes several thoughts about the word, 'Fuck.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated one cent #151 and Toybox #13. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This story is about a surrealistic train ride. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collaged element on the cover page is a newspaper clipping of a television program schedule. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also contains "The Glow Worm" by Charles Nodier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue mainly consists of short stories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue mainly consists of short stories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This first novel by Michael McClure is a murder mystery about a cocaine dealer-- "The scene moves back and forth from Greenwich Village, to the Arizona desert in this phantasmagorial adventure story of cocaine and murder. Time shifts and coheres as in the new cinema and reflects the post-psychedelic generation. This is the story of a 24-hour trip. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. Internet (The Thing): Ben Marcus is the author of the novels THE FLAME ALPHABET and NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN and the story collection, THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING. His new book, LEAVING THE SEA, will be published by Knopf in January of 2014. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The Believer, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Time, Conjunctions, and Tin House. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor of The American Reader. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the...